This article summarises the main results of the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Sector Comparative Project, phase 2, for the 9 European countries included in the project. Then it contrasts the European and the US patterns. Finally the European pattern is splitted into four variations: corporatist,...

The European Union in its widening movement shows five clusters of Third sector organisations with complex bonds and ties with the surrounding societies and national identities In introduction, we compare briefly the Europe's Third sector features to North America's ones (Historical and...

This paper intends to show that a European pattern of social economy exists, contrasting with the US nonprofit sector. This European pattern could be declined in five variations linked to the welfare state regimes and to the social origins of the countries. In the first part dealing with the...

Recently the measurement of Social economy has dramatically improved in France despite its invisibility in National accounts. The knowledge of its larger part, the nonprofit organisations, depends on the surveys run at Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne, a unique data base while cross-country...

Though deeply rooted in the Middle Ages, as in every European Country, the French nonprofit sector differs in that it was secularized and restricted at the beginning of the 19th century by the centralized state. According to a tradition dating back to the 1789 Revolution, the state had the...

This article is an entry to be published in an International Encyclopedia of Civil Society in 2009. Mutual organizations exist everywhere in developed and developing countreies as well. After a definition founded on social economy principles, the paper gives the historical background of mutual...

Cet article rappelle les objectifs du programme Johns Hopkins de comparaison internationale du secteur sans but lucratif, qui a servi de cadre aux enquêtes sur le bénévolat en France et en Europe. Avant d'analyser les résultats de ces enquêtes, on s'interroge sur les problèmes...

In France, like in other Western European countries, the third sector has been on a steady increase during the last decade as the results of the Johns Hopkins comparative project shows it. Today nonprofit organisations play also an increasing role in labour market policies. In a country with a...

After having stated some definitions and specified the legal and tax status of nonprofit organizations in France and the USA, this paper begins by comparing the scope of the American and the French third sectors, their structure and resources, using data from the Johns Hopkins Comparative...

After having stated some definitions and specified the legal and tax status of nonprofit organizations in France and the USA, this paper begins by comparing the scope of the American and the French third sectors, their structure and resources, using data from the Johns Hopkins Comparative...