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Lester Salamon

Political Science

#1191

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#1450

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#615

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Public Policy

#147

World Rank

#151

Historical Rank

#99

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Lester Salamon's Degrees

Bachelors Political Science University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Lester M. Salamon was a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He was also the director of the Center for Civil Society Studies at The Johns Hopkins Institute for Health and Social Policy Studies. Salamon has written or edited over 20 books in addition to hundreds of articles, monographs and chapters that have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Voluntas, and numerous other publications. He was a pioneer in the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, and is considered by many experts in his field to have been a leading specialist on alternative tools of government action and on the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and around the world.

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Lester Salamon's Published Works

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The tools of government : a guide to the new governance (2002) (1478)
Social Origins of Civil Society: Explaining the Nonprofit Sector Cross-Nationally (1998) (972)
Global civil society: dimensions of the nonprofit sector (1999) (943)
Of Market Failure, Voluntary Failure, and Third-Party Government: Toward a Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State (1987) (734)
Defining the NonProfit Sector: A Cross-National Analysis (1997) (676)
The Rise of the Nonprofit Sector (1994) (588)
The New Governance and the Tools of Public Action: An Introduction (2011) (502)
In search of the non-profit sector. I: The question of definitions (1992) (500)
Partners in Public Service: Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State (1995) (439)
The nonprofit sector in comparative perspective (2006) (391)
America's Nonprofit Sector : A Primer (1999) (364)
Volunteering in cross-national perspective: initial comparisons (1999) (315)
The Marketization of Welfare: Changing Nonprofit and For-Profit Roles in the American Welfare State (1993) (295)
The emerging nonprofit sector : an overview (1998) (287)
The Resilient Sector: The State of Nonprofit America (2003) (286)
Economic Power and Political Influence: The Impact of Industry Structure on Public Policy (1977) (259)
In search of the non-profit sector II: The problem of classification (1992) (253)
The Nonprofit Sector at a Crossroads: The Case of America (1999) (201)
Putting the Civil Society Sector on the Economic Map of the World (2010) (200)
Measuring the Economic Value of Volunteer Work Globally: Concepts, Estimates, and a Roadmap to the Future (2011) (170)
Volunteering in Cross-National Perspective: Evidence From 24 Countries (2001) (164)
Government and the Third Sector: Emerging Relationships in Welfare States (1992) (162)
DEFINING THE NONPROFIT SECTOR (1998) (159)
The Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project (1993) (158)
Beyond Nonprofits: Re-conceptualizing the Third Sector (2016) (147)
The State of Nonprofit America (2012) (141)
The Nonprofit Sector: For What and for Whom? (2000) (141)
Government–Nonprofit Cooperation: Anomaly or Necessity? (2015) (127)
Institutional Roots of Volunteering (2003) (109)
The nonprofit sector in the developing world : a comparative analysis (1998) (106)
SOCIAL ORIGINS OF CIVIL SOCIETY (2002) (99)
The Emerging Sector: An Overview (1994) (97)
The civil society sector (1997) (87)
The federal budget and the nonprofit sector (1982) (77)
Fear, Apathy, and Discrimination: A Test of Three Explanations of Political Participation (1973) (72)
Explaining Civil Society Development: A Social Origins Approach (2017) (70)
The emerging sector revisited : a summary : revised estimates (1998) (70)
In Search of the Nonprofit Sector (2002) (58)
The crisis of the nonprofit sector and the challenge of renewal (1996) (52)
Penetrating the Dual Realities of Government–Nonprofit Relations in Russia (2015) (50)
The future of the nonprofit sector. (1984) (50)
The emerging sector: The nonprofit sector in comparative perspective : an overview (1994) (45)
The Voluntary Sector and the Future of the Welfare State (1989) (44)
NGO development in central and Eastern Europe: An empirical overview (2003) (43)
The Illusion of Presidential Government (1981) (42)
The Reagan presidency and the governing of America (1985) (42)
La sociedad civil global. Las dimensiones del sector no lucrativo (2001) (40)
The international guide to nonprofit law (1997) (36)
Toward an understanding of the international nonprofit sector: the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project. (1992) (36)
New Frontiers of Philanthropy (2014) (35)
Introduction: The Nonprofitization of the Welfare State (2015) (35)
Welfare State Toward a Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Of Market Failure , Voluntary Failure , and Third-Party Government : (2006) (34)
Leverage for Good: An Introduction to the New Frontiers of Philanthropy and Social Investment (2014) (34)
Nonprofit organizations: new insights from QCEW data (2005) (34)
Working Papers of the The Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project (2000) (28)
The Resilient Sector Revisited: The New Challenge to Nonprofit America (2015) (28)
Nonprofi t America: A Force for Democracy? (2008) (28)
The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe: Concepts, Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities (2018) (27)
Training Professional Citizens: Getting beyond the Right Answer to the Wrong Question in Public Affairs Education (2005) (27)
The Nonprofit Sector and the New Federal Budget (1986) (25)
New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and New Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing (2014) (23)
ACCOUNTABILITY CHALLENGES OF THIRD PARTY GOVERNANCE Paper Prepared for the 20 Anniversary Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association June 15-18, 2004 Vancouver, Canada (2004) (22)
Partners in Public Service: Government and the Nonprofit Sector in the American Welfare State. (1987) (22)
Human Capital and America's Future: An Economic Strategy for the Nineties. (1993) (22)
DEFINING THE NONPROFIT SECTOR: THE UNITED KINGDOM (1993) (20)
The Emerging Sector: A Statistical Supplement (1996) (19)
The Size and Composition of the European Third Sector (2018) (18)
Comparative History and the Theory of Modernization (1970) (18)
New frontiers of philanthropy : a guide to the new tools and actors reshaping global philanthropy and social investing (2014) (18)
Uncovering The Nonprofit Sector In Ireland: Its Economic Value and Significance. (1999) (17)
THE IMPACT OF THE 1981 TAX ACT ON INDIVIDUAL CHARITABLE GIVING (1982) (16)
Closing the Gap? New Perspectives on Volunteering North and South (2017) (16)
The Goals of Reorga niza tion (1981) (15)
Caring Sector or Caring Society?: Discovering the Nonprofit Sector Cross-Nationally (1992) (15)
The Swiss civil society sector in a comparative perspective (2011) (15)
France: From Jacobin Tradition to Decentralization (1999) (15)
The Changing Shape of Government (2001) (14)
DEFINING THE NONPROFIT SECTOR: ROMANIA (1998) (14)
Non-profit institutions in the United Nations System of National Accounts: country applications of SNA guidelines (1994) (13)
Measuring the non-profit sector cross-nationally: a comparative methodology (1994) (13)
The Chicago nonprofit sector in a time of government retrenchment (1985) (11)
On Developing Comparative Nonprofit-Sector Theory: A Reply to Steinberg and Young, and Ragin (1998) (11)
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall? Commentary on Heinrich (2005) (10)
Land and Minority Enterprise: The Crisis and the Opportunity. (1976) (10)
Nonprofit Governance and Accountability (2005) (10)
Beyond nonprofits: In search of the third sector (2018) (10)
Foundations as investment managers part 1: The process (1992) (10)
Leadership and Modernization: The Emerging Black Political Elite in the American South (1973) (9)
Outsourcing Social Services to CSOs : Lessons from Abroad (2009) (9)
The Revolution on the Frontiers of Philanthropy (2014) (9)
Museums and Other Nonprofits in the Current Recession (2010) (8)
The third sector in global perspectives (2002) (8)
Foundations as investment managers part II: The performance (1993) (8)
The rise of the nonprofit sector : a global associational revolution (1994) (8)
HISTORY OF THE NONPROFIT SECTOR IN THE NETHERLANDS (1999) (7)
The Nonprofit Almanac: what are the issues? (1993) (7)
Voluntary organizations and the crisis of the welfare state. (1984) (6)
Determinants of Nonprofit Impact : A Preliminary Analysis (2003) (6)
Denmark: A Social Democratic Pattern with a Twist (2017) (6)
The New York nonprofit sector in a time of government retrenchment (1986) (6)
DEFINING THE NONPROFIT SECTOR: FRANCE (1993) (6)
Social and Environmental Exchanges (2014) (5)
Nonprofit Institutions and the Household Sector (2000) (5)
Trust in Charitable Organizations (2002) (5)
Second commentary on Heinrich: “Studying civil society across the world” (2006) (5)
Measuring Civil Society and Volunteering: New Comparative Findings from Implementation of the UN Nonprofit Handbook in 17 Countries (2012) (4)
The results are coming in. A groundbreaking new study demonstrates that recent federal budget cuts have indeed damaged nonprofits that serve the neediest. (1984) (4)
Voluntary Failure Theory Correctly Viewed (2003) (4)
The Pittsburgh nonprofit sector in a time of government retrenchment (1984) (4)
Subnational Variations in Civil Society Development: The Surprising Case of Russia (2020) (4)
Switzerland: A liberal outlier for Europe (2017) (3)
No numbers, no policy - can Eurostat count the nonprofit sector? (1993) (3)
The San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit sector in a time of government retrenchment (1985) (3)
A Comparative Study of the Nonprofit Sector: Purpose, Methodology, Definition, Classification (1992) (3)
Prospects for Nonprofits and Philanthropy in the Trump Presidency (2016) (3)
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up (2022) (3)
Putting Nonprofits on the Policy Agenda of Post-Soviet Russia: A Story of Convergence (2020) (3)
In, but not Of, the Market: The Special Challenge of Nonprofit-ness (2011) (2)
Welfare, the elusive consensus : where we are, how we got there, and what's ahead : Welfare Policy Project of the Ford Foundation and the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs of Duke University (1978) (2)
Moving beyond Privatization@@@Beyond Privatization: The Tools of Government Action (1990) (2)
The Atlanta nonprofit sector in a time of government retrenchment (1984) (2)
Urban Politics, Urban Policy, Case Studies, and Political Theory@@@The Politics of Progress@@@Power in the City: Decision Making in San Francisco (1977) (2)
Foundations as “Philanthropic Banks” (2014) (2)
Subsidiarity and the New Governance: Reflections on the Lombard Experience (2012) (2)
El sector de la sociedad civil (1997) (2)
Russia: A Classic Statist Model (2017) (2)
Fear Revisited: Rejoinder to “Comment” by Sam Kernell (1973) (2)
The Third Route: Subsidiarity, Third-Party Government and the Provision of Social Services (1994) (2)
The Netherlands: A classic welfare partnership model (2017) (2)
The Impact of Law on Nonprofit Development: A Framework for Analysis (2012) (2)
Investment Capital : The New Challenge for American Nonprofits (1)
Taxing the Tax ‐ Exempt Sector — A Growing Danger for Nonprofit Organizations (2011) (1)
Explaining civil society development II: The social origins theory (2017) (1)
What would Google do? designing appropriate social impact measurement systems (2011) (1)
New Zealand: An unusual liberal model (2017) (1)
Introduction: The puzzle of civil society development (2017) (1)
Business social engagement in Latin America: The new alliance for progress? (2008) (1)
THE NONPROFIT SECTOR IN THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS: DEFINITION, TREATMENT, AND PRACTICE (2009) (1)
Globalization and the Civil Society Sector (2006) (1)
Government Spending and the Nonprofit Sector in Cook County/Chicago (1984) (1)
Government Spending and the Nonprofit Sector in New York City (1986) (0)
An Historical First Step : The International Conference On Non-Profit Sector ( NPO ) and Development July 26-28 , 1999 Beijing , CHINA Summary (2002) (0)
Subsidiarity and the New Governance (2012) (0)
Caring Sector or Caring Society: A Comparative Study (1995) (0)
The Commonalities of Volunteering: How Consensus Global Definitions Accommodate Regional Variations and Why It Is Important to Use Them (2021) (0)
Tata Trusts (2019) (0)
Allies or Adversaries: NGOs and the State in Africa. By Jennifer N. Brass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 291p. $105.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. (2018) (0)
Sen Defining the Nonprofit Sector : India 1 DEFINING THE NONPROFIT SECTOR : INDIA Introduction 1 (2002) (0)
THE FEDERAL BUDGET " , ' II ) THE NONPROFIT SECTOR : IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA by (2013) (0)
Scouting Philanthropy’s New Frontier II (2014) (0)
The Presidency and Domestic Policy Formulation (2019) (0)
Mexico: A persistent statist pattern (2017) (0)
Australia: A liberal model in spite of itself (2017) (0)
Towards an Understanding of the Nonprofit Sector in the Developing World (1998) (0)
International comparisons: Lessons from the measurement of the nonprofit component (2015) (0)
Introduction: The Nonprofitization of the Welfare State (2015) (0)
Market Failure (0)
Chile: A latin welfare partnership model (2017) (0)
Government spending and the nonprofit sector in Atlanta/Fulton County (1985) (0)
Portugal: In transition from statist to welfare partnership (2017) (0)
Reagan's First Term (1985) (0)
Conclusion: Beyond the Presidential Illusion—Toward a Constitutional Presidency (2019) (0)
Testing the social origins theory of civil society development (2017) (0)
Landim Defining the Nonprofit Sector : Brazil 1 DEFINING THE NONPROFIT SECTOR : BRAZIL Introduction (2002) (0)
Beyond Nonprofits: Re-conceptualizing the Third Sector (2016) (0)
THE REVOLUTION IN SOCIAL PURPOSE FINANCE (2015) (0)
Penetrating the Dual Realities of Government–Nonprofit Relations in Russia (2015) (0)
Navigating the Future (2014) (0)
Roots of Political Activism--Psychological or Social? (1975) (0)
4. The Nonprofit Sector in Comparative Perspective (2017) (0)
What is to be explained?: Variations in civil society development (2017) (0)
Mastering the federal data monster: Some advice for nonprofit policy wonks (1993) (0)
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES IN CONFLICT OF LAWS: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF DAVID F. CAVERS (1979) (0)
Social Engagement (2021) (0)
Federal Regulation: A New Arena for Presidential Power? (2019) (0)
Explaining civil society development I: Preference and sentiment theories (2017) (0)
Government–Nonprofit Cooperation: Anomaly or Necessity? (2015) (0)
Austria: A dualistic pattern of civil society development (2017) (0)
Conclusion and implications (2017) (0)

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