"Debates over redistribution, social welfare, and market regulation are central to American politics. Why do some of us prefer a large role for government in the economic life of the nation while others prefer a smaller role? In Open Versus Closed, the authors argue that these preferences are...

Preface -- Purpose, policy, theory, definitions and context -- Designing, empowering and engaging the nonprofit to lessen the burden of government -- Empowering the nonprofit to lessen the burden of government -- Nonprofits as doers in reducing the burden of government -- Nonprofit as financiers...

This book addresses a specific subset of nonprofits that are chartered with a single mission: decrease the burden of government. Designing and engaging nonprofits to lessen the burden of government requires a specific description and acknowledgement of the burden to be lessened, and these may...