Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective

Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective

NONPROFIT AND CIVIL SOCIETY STUDIES An International Multidisciplinary Series Series Editor: Helmut K. Anheier, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, and University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany For more information about books in this series, visit: springer.com/series/6339 CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PROFESSIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE Social Change and Organizational Innovation in Poland S. Wojciech Sokolowski DILEMMAS OF THE WELFARE MIX The New Structure of Welfare in an Era of Privatization Edited by Ugo Ascoli and Costanzo Ranci GLOBALIZATION, PHILANTHROPY, AND CIVIL SOCIETY Toward a New Political Culture in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Soma Hewa and Darwin H. Stapleton INNOVATION IN STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY Local and Global Perspectives Edited by Helmut K. Anheier, Adele Simmons and David Winder NEIGHBORHOOD SELF-MANAGEMENT Experiments in Civil Society Hillel Schmid POLICY INITIATIVES TOWARDS THE THIRD SECTOR IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Edited by Benjamin Gidron and Michal Bar PRIVATE FUNDS, PUBLIC PURPOSE Philanthropic Foundations in International Perspective Edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler THE PRIVATE NONPROFIT SECTOR Measuring Its Impact on Society Edited by Patrice Flynn and Virginia Hodgkinson STRATEGY MIX FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Vehicles for Social and Labor Market Integration Edited by Annette Zimmer and Christina Stecker THE STUDY OF NONPROFIT ENTERPRISE Theories and Approaches Edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Avner Ben-Ner UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTALISM A Comparative Perspective Gunnar Grendstad, Per Selle, Kristin Strømsnes and Øystein Bortne THE VALUES OF VOLUNTEERING Cross-Cultural Perspective Edited by Paul Dekker and Loek Halman WORKFORCE TRANSITIONS FROM THE PROFIT TO THE NONPROFIT SECTOR Tobie S. Stein

Benjamin Gidron Editors Michal Bar Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective

Editors Benjamin Gidron Israeli Center for Third Sector Research Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel gidron@bgu.ac.il Michal Bar Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel msmi@mscc.huji.ac.il ISBN 978-1-4419-1258-9 e-isbn 978-1-4419-1259-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1259-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933110 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents 1 Introduction... 1 Benjamin Gidron and Michal Bar 2 A Comprehensive Canadian Approach to the Third Sector: Creative Tensions and Unexpected Outcomes... 21 Kathy L. Brock 3 Nonprofits and Public Policy in the United States: The Evolution of Accountability... 45 Dennis R. Young 4 Policy Initiatives Towards Civil Society in Germany: A Story of Missed Opportunities?... 67 Rupert G. Strachwitz 5 Policy Initiatives Towards New Legal Framework for Japanese Civil Society... 87 Naoto Yamauchi and Mika Kitora 6 Changing State Civil Society Relationships in Ireland... 109 Freda Donoghue and Joe Larragy 7 Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector Under the Conditions of Ambiguity: The Case of Hungary... 127 Eva Kuti 8 The Long Journey to the Promised Land: Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in Israel... 159 v

vi Contents Michal Bar and Benjamin Gidron 9 On the Interdependence Between Politics and Policy in the Shaping of English Horizontal Third Sector Initiative... 189 Jeremy Kendall and Marilyn Taylor 10 Comparing Third Sector Policy: A Postscript and Six Theses... 213 Helmut K. Anheier Index... 217

Contributors Helmut K. Anheier UCLA School of Public Affairs, Los Angeles, CA, USA Heidelberg Center on Social Investment, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Michal Bar Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Kathy L. Brock School of Policy Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada Freda Donoghue Centre for Nonprofit Management, Trinity College-Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Benjamin Gidron Israeli Center for Third Sector Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Jeremy Kendall School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Kent, UK Mika Kitora Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Eva Kuti Budapest College of Management, Budapest, Hungary Joe Larragy Centre for Applied Social Studies, National University of Ireland-Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland Rupert G. Strachwitz Maecenata Institute, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany vii

viii Contributors Marilyn Taylor Cities Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Naoto Yamauchi Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Dennis R. Young Nonprofit Studies Program, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA