In Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society, Thomas Adam has assembled a comparative set of case studies that challenge long-held and little-studied assumptio

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Traces the historical development of civil society and philanthropy in the West and analyzes their role in solving the problems faced by modern liberal democrac

A one-stop guide to the people, concepts and organizations of the third sector.