A History of the American Nonprofit Sector

The Rise and Professionalization of Doing Good

Mordecai Lee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

358 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0523-6 (ISBN)

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This book presents a history of the American nonprofit sector. It covers the seminal 1819 Supreme Court decision that Dartmouth College was a private nonprofit corporation and therefore independent of government control. The rise of the sector in the twentieth century is presented through exemplars of four different kinds of nonprofits, efforts at professionalization, and early initiatives in management training. During the twenty-first century, external communication has become central for nonprofits, including lobbying and public reporting. In a more light-hearted vein, the image of American nonprofits in pop culture is analyzed through their depiction in movies. The book's subject matter is at the intersection of multiple academic fields, including nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, American history, political science, management history, business administration, public administration, and organization theory. It can be used as a textbook, by advanced researchers, and by academic libraries interested in the American nonprofit sector or in US history.

Mordecai Lee is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, where he taught courses in nonprofit management. His research interest in American nonprofits and their history resulted in two books, 15 articles in scholarly journals, and an encyclopedia entry. Lee received a PhD from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, USA. Before joining the academy, he had careers in politics and the nonprofit sector. He was legislative assistant to a Member of Congress in Washington, DC, and then elected to the Wisconsin State Legislature for five terms. After leaving politics voluntarily, he was executive director of a faith-based nonprofit in Wisconsin. He started his academic career in 1997. His other academic interests are government public relations and public administration. Cambridge Scholars Publishing has published books on each of those subjects: The Emergence and Scope of the Voice of Government and A History of Public Administration in the United States: The Rise of American Bureaucracy.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-0523-0 / 1036405230
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0523-6 / 9781036405236
Zustand	Neuware