Regulatory Waves

All governments in various ways regulate and control nonprofit organizations. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) while hopeful of supportive regulatory environments are simultaneously seeking greater autonomy both to provide services and to advocate for policy change. In part to counter increasing statutory regulation there is a global nonprofit sector movement towards greater grassroots regulation - what the authors call self-regulation - through codes of conduct and self-accreditation processes. This book drills down to the country level to study both sides of this equation examining how state regulation and nonprofit self-regulation affect each other and investigating the causal nature of this interaction. Exploring these issues from historical cultural political and environmental perspectives and in sixteen jurisdictions (Australia China Brazil Ecuador England and Wales Ethiopia Ireland Israel Kenya Malawi Mexico Tanzania Uganda Scotland United States and Vietnam) the authors analyze the interplay between state control and nonprofit self-regulation to better understand broader emerging trends.