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Philanthropication thru Privatization Comes to China

Philanthropication thru Privatization Comes to China * Holly Snape received her PhD in East Asian Studies from the University of Bristol, uk. She currently works as a Foreign Expert at the ccp Central Committee’s Central Compilation and Translation Bureau. Her research focuses on social organizing, civil society, and the evolution of state-society relations in China.Salamon’s Philanthropication thru Privatization: Building Permanent Endowments for the Common Good sets out with ambitions of a similar scale to those of his civil society index of the late 1990s and early 2000s.1 In many ways, like that project, it calls for serious thought. The likeness of the two projects goes far beyond their global reach. The civil society index project was underpinned by a Tocquevillean conceptualization of civil society as a measure of the health of a country’s system and as a field of organizing to be cultivated for the good of society. The philanthropication thru privatization (ptp) project follows this line of thinking as it introduces the tantalizing potential of a vast wealth of sustainable resources to be channeled into this field and used for philanthropic purposes.The book is essentially an edited version of a research report written following efforts, dotted around the globe, to track down cases of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The China Nonprofit Review Brill

Philanthropication thru Privatization Comes to China

Snape, Holly
The China Nonprofit Review , Volume 9 (1): 5 – Jun 21, 2017
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* Holly Snape received her PhD in East Asian Studies from the University of Bristol, uk. She currently works as a Foreign Expert at the ccp Central Committee’s Central Compilation and Translation Bureau. Her research focuses on social organizing, civil society, and the evolution of state-society relations in China.Salamon’s Philanthropication thru Privatization: Building Permanent Endowments for the Common Good sets out with ambitions of a similar scale to those of his civil society index of the late 1990s and early 2000s.1 In many ways, like that project, it calls for serious thought. The likeness of the two projects goes far beyond their global reach. The civil society index project was underpinned by a Tocquevillean conceptualization of civil society as a measure of the health of a country’s system and as a field of organizing to be cultivated for the good of society. The philanthropication thru privatization (ptp) project follows this line of thinking as it introduces the tantalizing potential of a vast wealth of sustainable resources to be channeled into this field and used for philanthropic purposes.The book is essentially an edited version of a research report written following efforts, dotted around the globe, to track down cases of

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Published: Jun 21, 2017

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