The notion of trust is one of the most topical issues in current social science theorising covering such diverse approaches as transaction costs economics, social capital, and cognitive sociology. In different ways and for different purposes, these approaches address the role of voluntary and...

Europe has a rich tapestry of foundations. The countries of this continent vary by the type, size, activities, role, development and recent growth of foundations. This paper first shows and then analyses these differences, and suggests common themes and policy implications.

The growth and development of the United States’ non-profit sector in its service and civil society capacities could not have taken the course it did by relying solely on private voluntary contributions. Within the US non-profit sector, there few large “pure” non-profit service providers...

This paper examines two competing views that have been put forward about the East German third sector. One view sees the third sector in East Germany as an expression of civil society, rooted in an emerging democratic culture, and based on a broadening social participation. According to the...

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type="graphical" xml:id="gpol12061-abs-0002" <p>‘Globalizing policy fields can contain institutional voids in which effective regulatory frameworks and the corrective counterbalance of civil society are equally absent.’ In this paper, Helmut Anheier recommends the ‘systematic development of a...</p>

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Basierend auf den Erkenntnissen der Soziologie sozialer Bewegungen werden die unterschiedlichen Konjunkturen in der Konstitutionsphase der NSDAP in München zwischen 1925 und 1930 untersucht. Insbesondere wird entlang von Framing-Strategien der Frage nachgegangen, ob und in welchem Maß die...