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Informationen zum Autor edited by David C. Hammack, Steven Heydemann Klappentext David C. Hammack is Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. He is editor of Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader (IUP, 1998).Steven Heydemann is Vice President of the Grants and Fellowship Program at the U.S. Institute for Peace, and Adjunct and Research Associate Professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He is author of Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946¿1970. Zusammenfassung Includes essays that reflect pioneering efforts to study the global movement of ideas and institutions. This title deals with such topics as: initiatives to address the AIDS epidemic in East Africa; to protect the peoples and ecosystems of the Amazon; and, to advance the 'truth and reconciliation' process in South Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Social Science and Philanthropic Studies by Kenneth Prewitt Acknowledgments Part 1. Introduction 1. Philanthropic Projections: Sending Institutional Logics Abroad/ Steven Heydemann and David C. Hammack 2. Nongovernmental Organizations and the Making of the International Community/ Akira Iriye Part 2. Projecting Logics 3. Philanthropy and the "Perfect Democracy" of Rotary International/ Brendan Goff 4. Social Entrepreneurship: Success Stories and Logic Construction/ Michael Lounsbury and David Strang 5. Moral Globalization and Discursive Struggle: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, and Cosmopolitan Discourse/ Jonathan VanAntwerpen Part 3. Contesting Logics 6. Philanthropic Foundations in Russia: Western Projection and Local Legitimacy/ John W. Slocum 7. Promoting Civil Society or Diffusing NGOs? U.S. Donors in the Former Soviet Union/ Sada Aksartova 8. Dialectics of Patronage: Logics of Accountability at the African AIDS-NGO Interface/ Ann Swidler Part 4. Transnational Logics 9. The Political Logic of Institutional Adaptation: NGOs' Strategies Abroad/ Elizabeth Bloodgood 10. Exporting Institutional Logics into the Amazon? American and German Efforts to Protect the Ecosystems and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin/ Sandra Moog List of Contributors Index ...
