Regulatory Waves: Comparative Perspectives on State Regulation and Self-Regulation Policies in the Nonprofit Sector - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107166853 ISBN 13: 9781107166851

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

All governments, in various ways, regulate and control nonprofit organizations. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), while hopeful of supportive regulatory environments, are simultaneously seeking greater autonomy both to provide services and to advocate for policy change. In part to counter increasing statutory regulation, there is a global nonprofit sector movement towards greater grassroots regulation - what the authors call self-regulation - through codes of conduct and self-accreditation processes. This book drills down to the country level to study both sides of this equation, examining how state regulation and nonprofit self-regulation affect each other and investigating the causal nature of this interaction. Exploring these issues from historical, cultural, political, and environmental perspectives, and in sixteen jurisdictions (Australia, China, Brazil, Ecuador, England and Wales, Ethiopia, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Tanzania, Uganda, Scotland, United States, and Vietnam), the authors analyze the interplay between state control and nonprofit self-regulation to better understand broader emerging trends.

About this title

Book Description

This book provides an analysis of nonprofit regulatory theory which will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of law, regulation, nonprofit studies and policy formation. It provides comparative analysis of nonprofit regulation in sixteen different jurisdictions.

About the Author

Oonagh B. Breen is a Senior Lecturer at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin where she teaches NGO law. Her research focuses on comparative charity law regulation and governance and the development of more structured legal relationships between the state and the non-profit sector. She has been a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations (2009), an Ian Potter Foundation Fellow at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (2016) and serves on the Boards of both the International Society for Third-Sector Research and the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107166853
• ISBN 13: 9781107166851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Breen Oonagh B., Dunn Alison, Sidel Mark