The Politics Of Charity

Author : Kerry O'Halloran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136740398

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The Politics of Charity by Kerry O'Halloran Pdf

For the first time since 1601, a number of leading common law nations have almost simultaneously chosen to revise and place on the statute books the law relating to charity. The Politics of Charity examines the reasons for this and for the varying legislative outcomes. This book examines the legal framework and political significance of charity, as developed within England & Wales, contrasts this with the experiences of other common law nations and explores the resulting implications for government/sector relationships in those countries. It suggests that charity law lies at the heart of the relationship between government and the non profit sector, that there is an unmistakeable political agenda driving charity law reform and that the differential in legislative outcomes reflects important differences in the policies pursued by the governments concerned. Looking at fundamentally different approaches of government towards the sector in the UK, Ireland, the US, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore and Australia, O’Halloran argues the results will have implications for the present workings of parliamentary democracy. The Politics of Charity will be a valuable resource for academics, regulators and legal practitioners as well as advanced and postgraduate students in law, politics and public policy.

Author : Kerry O'Halloran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199996032

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The Profits of Charity by Kerry O'Halloran Pdf

The Profits of Charity examines the contemporary law governing the involvement of charity in commerce, explores the reasons why this involvement is dramatically changing and considers the resulting implications for charities and the nonprofit sector. From a perspective familiar to charity lawyers, NGO managers, and scholars, Kerry O'Halloran identifies the concepts and the law underpinning charities and their profits by tracing legal developments in the field and identifying the resulting opportunities and challenges for the future. At a time when many leading nations are confronting economic recession, the threat of terrorism, and the retreat of the 'welfare state,' this book explores how and why governments are now turning to charities in their quest to cultivate social capital, consolidate civil society, and promote civic engagement. In The Profits of Charity, Professor O'Halloran undertakes a comparative analysis of the balance struck between government, charity, and commerce in the EU and leading common law nations, including the United States, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand, and Australia. He uses analysis of legislation, outcomes of charity law reviews, and recent case law to illustrate jurisdictional differences, and concludes with an assessment of the extent and significance of the recalibrated relationships and considers the overarching issues that arise for charity law and social policy.

Author : Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674067929

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Cultures of Charity by Nicholas Terpstra Pdf

Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women’s shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.

Author : Rob Reich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691202273

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Just Giving by Rob Reich Pdf

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn’t the unassailable good we think it to be but might also undermine democratic values. Big philanthropy is often an exercise of power, the conversion of private assets into public influence. And it is a form of power that is largely unaccountable and lavishly tax-advantaged. Philanthropy currently fails democracy, but Rob Reich argues that it can be redeemed. Just Giving investigates the ethical and political dimensions of philanthropy and considers how giving might better support democratic values and promote justice.

Author : Peter J. Burnell
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Aide économique - Pays en voie de développement
ISBN : 0312061854

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Charity, Politics, and the Third World by Peter J. Burnell Pdf

Author : Matthew Levitt
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300129014

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Hamas by Matthew Levitt Pdf

How does a group that operates terror cells and espouses violence become a ruling political party? How is the world to understand and respond to Hamas, the militant Islamist organization that Palestinian voters brought to power in the stunning election of January 2006? This important book provides the most fully researched assessment of Hamas ever written. Matthew Levitt, a counterterrorism expert with extensive field experience in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, draws aside the veil of legitimacy behind which Hamas hides. He presents concrete, detailed evidence from an extensive array of international intelligence materials, including recently declassified CIA, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security reports. Levitt demolishes the notion that Hamas’ military, political, and social wings are distinct from one another and catalogues the alarming extent to which the organization’s political and social welfare leaders support terror. He exposes Hamas as a unitary organization committed to a militant Islamist ideology, urges the international community to take heed, and offers well-considered ideas for countering the significant threat Hamas poses.

Author : Kyle Bunds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781351684460

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Sport, Politics and the Charity Industry by Kyle Bunds Pdf

Sport is commonly used by charities and philanthropic organisations as a way of acquiring donors and fundraisers. In this ground-breaking study, Kyle Bunds examines the nexus of sport, politics and the charity industry through an investigation of water development agencies that raise funds in the developed world to build water systems in the developing world. Using innovative auto-ethnographic research methods, this book examines the links between water charities, charity running events and water development projects in the UK, USA, Canada and Africa. By exploring the political economy of philanthropy from a critical perspective, it suggests new ways in which to support and improve the relationships between sport, wider society and the environment. Posing important questions about the potential environmental impact of sport on an international level, this study presents a compelling vision of the future of water charities across the globe. Sport, Politics and the Charity Industry: Running for Water is fascinating reading for all those interested in sport and politics, sports geography, sport and the environment, sports development, or sport and the charity industry.

Author : Daniel Raventós,Julie Wark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Charity
ISBN : 1849353042

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Against Charity by Daniel Raventós,Julie Wark Pdf

A demand for justice and rejection of the philanthrocapitalism of charitable giving.

Author : Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674071742

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Cultures of Charity by Nicholas Terpstra Pdf

Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused on features of women’s poverty like illegitimate births, hunger, unemployment, and domestic violence. Signal features of the reforms, from forced labor to new instruments of saving and lending, were devised specifically to help young women get a start in life. Cultures of Charity is the first book to see women’s poverty as the key factor driving changes to poor relief. These changes generated intense political debates as proponents of republican democracy challenged more elitist and authoritarian forms of government emerging at the time. Should taxes fund poor relief? Could forced labor help build local industry? Focusing on Bologna, Terpstra looks at how these fights around politics and gender generated pioneering forms of poor relief, including early examples of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.

Author : Ilan Kapoor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415783385

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Celebrity Humanitarianism by Ilan Kapoor Pdf

This book examines the new phenomenon of celebrity humanitarianism arguing that legitimates neoliberal capitalism and global inequality.

Author : Arthur C. Brooks
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465003655

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Who Really Cares by Arthur C. Brooks Pdf

We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert, spent years researching giving trends in America, and even he was surprised by what he found. In Who Really Cares, he identifies the forces behind American charity: strong families, church attendance, earning one's own income (as opposed to receiving welfare), and the belief that individuals-not government-offer the best solution to social ills. But beyond just showing us who the givers and non-givers in America really are today, Brooks shows that giving is crucial to our economic prosperity, as well as to our happiness, health, and our ability to govern ourselves as a free people.

Author : Jonathan Benthall,Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857711250

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The Charitable Crescent by Jonathan Benthall,Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan Pdf

Islamic Charity Under Suspicion': such headlines have become familiar since the attacks on the United States on 9.11. The Charitable Crescent is a unique and original account of a hitherto little-known field of pivotal significance to our understanding of the Muslim world today: the relationship between politics and philanthropy in the workings of Islamic charities. Based on years of research, Jonathan Benthall and Jerome Bellion-Jourdan explain the long tradition of philanthropy in Muslim history and how it is constantly adapted to differing political contexts. The pervasive connections between charity and politics in the Middle East demonstrate how naïve it is to think of humanitarianism as a sphere distinct from politics. The Charitable Crescent covers all aspects of this topic that has become so relevant in today's world: who is entitled to benefit from Muslim alms? Can material relief aid be de-linked from political, or sometimes even violent, action? How can public trust (both Western and Islamic) in welfare delivery systems be won? Who is entitled to interpret Islamic doctrine? Is there one universal tradition of humanitarianism, or many traditions defined by cultural history? This book offers rich practical insights highly relevant to today's highly tense international climate, and also encourages the reader to challenge the common Western assumption that 'we' are the exclusive providers of aid to rescue a passive Third World. "Interesting, rewarding and timely - this is an important book" - 'Caroline Moorhead.'

Author : Graeme McCreath
Publisher : Granville Island
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Blind
ISBN : 1894694813

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Politics of Blindness by Graeme McCreath Pdf

This book examines the conventional approaches to numerous problems that affect people who are blind (such as education, Braille literacy, economic inequities, stereotyping, job training and employment opportunities, poverty, rehabilitation and social services).

Author : Tade Akin Aina
Publisher : Amalion Publishing
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782359260212

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Giving to Help, Helping to Give by Tade Akin Aina Pdf

The past decade has seen a flowering of philanthropic activities across many parts of Africa. Unlike before, this flowering has the distinct character of African agency, energy and engagement. Philanthropy is no longer about narratives of passive, poor and miserable Africans receiving help from rich, fortunate and often Western outsiders. The emerging narratives about philanthropy in Africa are about an increasingly confident and knowledgeable assertion of African capacities to give not only to help but also to transform and seek to address the root causes of injustice, want, ignorance and disease. The narratives are also about the increasing questioning of the role and place of Africans in the world’s philanthropic traditions and what constitutes African specificities but also African differences and varieties. This book is about African philanthropic experiences, their varieties, challenges and opportunities. It is about documenting, investigating, describing, questioning and reflecting on philanthropy in Africa. Because Africa is not a monolithic entity with one single history, cultural, political and economic experience, this ground-breaking book rightly tackles the varied modes, forms, vehicles and means in which the philanthropic experiences are expressed in Africa. It is a pioneering and ambitious effort in a field and community of practice that is new both in terms of scholarship and in professional practice. Many of the chapters boldly engage the burden of reflections, questions, ambivalences and ambiguities that one often finds in an emerging field, innovatively positing the outlines, concepts, frameworks and theories of scholarship and practice for a field critical to development on the continent.

Author : Henry Milner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civics
ISBN : UOM:39015054241297

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Civic Literacy by Henry Milner Pdf