The nonprofit sector in Sweden / Tommy Lundström and Filip Wijkström.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lundström, Tommy.

Contributor:

Wijkström, Filip.

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Johns Hopkins nonprofit sector series ; 11.

Johns Hopkins nonprofit sector series ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations--Sweden.

Nonprofit organizations.

Sweden.

Physical Description:

xiii, 345 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Contents:

1.1 Earlier research 3

Chapter 2 Defining a nonprofit sector 14

2.3 Nonprofit organizations: definition and classification 35

Chapter 3 The history 52

3.1 Four major periods 53

3.2 The fields of the nonprofit sector 77

3.3 Diverging developments 98

Chapter 4 The legal situation 108

4.1 Legal framework 108

4.2 Nonprofit status in Sweden 119

4.3 Concluding remarks on the legal situation 133

Chapter 5 The contours 134

5.1 Methodology 135

5.2 Size and structure: nonprofit sector economics 138

5.3 Non-economic measures 155

5.4 Summary of quantitative measures 179

Chapter 6 Changing relations 181

6.1 State policy and the nonprofit sector 183

6.2 Dependency and nearness 199

6.3 Key fields of the Swedish nonprofit sector 204

6.4 Nonprofit representatives on the nonprofit sector 221

6.5 From voice to service 232

Chapter 7 Analysis and implications 236

7.2 The results from a theoretical standpoint 238

7.3 Welfare state crisis and review of the social contract 244

7.4 Nonprofits and democracy 246

7.5 Institutionalization, integration and popular mass movements 250

7.6 Voice and service 254

7.7 The future 259

B Swedish version of the ICNPO 304

C Output measures 306.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-338) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0719051258

OCLC:

36705788