Social Origins of Civil Society: Explaining the Nonprofit Sector Cross-Nationally

• 1 January 1998
• journal article
• Published by Springer Nature in VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
• Vol. 9  (3) , 213-248
• https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022058200985

Abstract

Keywords

• CROSS-NA- TIONAL COMPARISONS.
• COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGY
• SOCIAL ORIGINS THEORY
• NONPROFIT THEORY
• MARKET FAILURE
• CIVIL SOCIETY
• WELFARE STATE
• SOCIAL CAPITAL