Regulatory Waves

Comparative Perspectives on State Regulation and Self-Regulation Policies in the Nonprofit Sector

Oonagh B. Breen, Alison Dunn, Mark Sidel

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781107166851
• eBook ISBN: 9781316731307
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Comparative Law
• Index: Law

All governments, in various ways, regulate and control nonprofit organizations. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), while hopeful of supportive regulatory environments, are simultaneously seeking greater autonomy both to provide services and to advocate for policy change. In part to counter increasing statutory regulation, there is a global nonprofit sector movement towards greater grassroots regulation - what the authors call self-regulation - through codes of conduct and self-accreditation processes. This book drills down to the country level to study both sides of this equation, examining how state regulation and nonprofit self-regulation affect each other and investigating the causal nature of this interaction. Exploring these issues from historical, cultural, political, and environmental perspectives, and in sixteen jurisdictions (Australia, China, Brazil, Ecuador, England and Wales, Ethiopia, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Tanzania, Uganda, Scotland, United States, and Vietnam), the authors analyze the interplay between state control and nonprofit self-regulation to better understand broader emerging trends.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Regulatory Waves: An Introduction
• 2 Eddies and Tides: Statutory Regulation, Co-Regulation, and Self-Regulation in Charity Law in Britain
• 3 Waiting for the Big Wave: A Fifty-Year Retrospective on the Ebb and Flow of Irish Charity Regulation
• 4 Shifting Patterns of State Regulation and NGO Self-Regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 5 State Regulation and the Emergence of Self-Regulation in the Chinese and Vietnamese Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sectors
• 6 The Regulation and Self-Regulation of Civil Sector Organizations in Israel
• 7 Regulation and Self-Regulation in the Mexican Nonprofit Sector
• 8 Waves of Nonprofit Regulation and Self-Regulation in Latin America: Evidence and Trends from Brazil and Ecuador
• 9 Australia: Co-Production, Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation
• 10 The Relationships between State and Nonstate Interventions in Charitable Solicitation Law in the United States
• 11 Regulatory Waves: A Conclusion
• Index