Building the Third Sector: Latin America's Private Research Centers and Nonprofit Development (Pitt Latin American Series) - Hardcover

Levy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822939444 ISBN 13: 9780822939443

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996

Synopsis

"Daniel Levy's Building the Third Sector is an odyssey through one of the most vital but least explored parts of the burgeoning Latin American nonprofit sector". Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University

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Review:

"This study of the rise of nongovernmentl organizations in Latin America over the past quarter century is an important addition to an international/comparative literature that has tended to ignore our southern neighbors. It is enriched by the author's disciplinary grounding in educational policy, political science, and area studies." --ArnovaNews "Daniel Levy's Building the Third Sector makes an important contribution to a better understanding of the burgeoning nonprofit sector, with a careful analysis of the role of private research centers, their management, and their significance." --Journal of Developing Areas "This comprehensively researched book provides a detailed guide to a little-known sector of Latin America's higher education network. It also raises important questions concerning the necessary institutional arrangements required to nudge authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in more democratic directions. . . . [The book] provides serious, and at times convincing, insights into a topic deserving of a wider audience." --American Journal of Sociology This study of the rise of nongovernmentl organizations in Latin America over the past quarter century is an important addition to an international/comparative literature that has tended to ignore our southern neighbors. It is enriched by the author s disciplinary grounding in educational policy, political science, and area studies. "--ArnovaNews"" Daniel Levy s Building the Third Sector makes an important contribution to a better understanding of the burgeoning nonprofit sector, with a careful analysis of the role of private research centers, their management, and their significance. "--Journal of Developing Areas" " This comprehensively researched book provides a detailed guide to a little-known sector of Latin America's higher education network. It also raises important questions concerning the necessary institutional arrangements required to nudge authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in more democratic directions. . . . [The book] provides serious, and at times convincing, insights into a topic deserving of a wider audience. " American Journal of Sociology""

Synopsis:

Private research centres have largely displaced public universities as Latin America's leaders in social science. This work shows how the centre's successes often undermine a region's struggling universities while failing themselves to fulfill higher education's mission.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0822939444
• ISBN 13: 9780822939443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368