Suchergebnisse

pt. I Introduction -- 1. Governance: Issues and Frameworks / Helmut K. Anheier and Regina A. List -- pt. II Financial and Fiscal Governance -- 2. Financial and Fiscal Governance: An Introduction / Mark Hallerberg -- 3. Picking Up (and Rearranging) the Pieces: The Politics of Global Financial Governance in the Wake of the Great Recession / Mark S. Copelovitch -- 4. Is European Union Governance Ready to Deal with the Next Financial Crisis? / Lucia Quaglia -- 5. The Fiscal Policy Implications of Balance of Payments Imbalances / Stefanie Walter -- 6. The Political Sources of Crisis Situations / William Roberts Clark and Vincent Arel-Bundock -- pt. III Governance Innovations -- 7. The Contribution of Innovation Research to Understanding Governance Innovation: A Review / Helmut K. Anheier and Mark T. Fliegauf -- 8. Financial Governance Through the Lens of Innovation / Helmut K. Anheier and Mark T. Fliegauf -- pt. IV Governance Indicators -- 9. Governance Indicators: Some Proposals / Piero Stanig and Mark Kayser -- 10. Public---Private Sector Relationships, Capture, and Governance Quality / Klaus J. Brösamle -- 11. Governance Beyond the Nation-state: Estimating Governance Indexes at the Subnational and Transnational Level / Piero Stanig

This new volume presents a systematic and comparative analysis of the current and future role of foundations in Europe and beyond. While cross-national studies of business firms, government agencies and service-providing nonprofit organizations are increasingly becoming available, little is known, in a systematic way, about the challenges foundations are facing. This book therefore includes a mapping and appraisal of foundation visions, policies and strategies, and an overall assessment of the current and future policy environment in which they operate. It goes beyond a quantitative profile of foundations in Europe, and probes deeper into their role and contributions in meeting the economic, cultural, environmental and educational needs of European societies. Developed from an international research project, this study includes twenty country studies comparing foundations in Europe, the Europe Union and the US. This valuable reference will be of interest to researchers and students of foundations, policy-making, comparative politics and international business, as well as to policy-makers and professionals.

"America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundations have a great deal of freedom, enjoy widespread legitimacy, and wield considerable influence. In this book, David Hammack and Helmut Anheier follow up their edited volume, American Foundations, with a comprehensive historical account of what American foundations have done with that independence and power. While philanthropic foundations play important roles in other parts of the world, the U.S. sector stands out as exceptional. Nowhere else are they so numerous, prominent, or autonomous. What have been the main contributions of philanthropic foundations to American society? And what might the future hold for them?"--

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