MAPPING CIVIL SOCIETY, NONPROFIT INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIAL ECONOMY

ARNOVA Meeting

Toronto, November 19, 2011

S.Wojciech Sokolowski

Johns Hopkins University

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MAJOR CIVIL SOCIETY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS

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• Nonprofit Institutions (JHCCSS, UNSD)

• Social Economy (EC, CIRIEC)

• “Between Market & State” (CIVICUS)

SCOPES OF CIVIL SOCIETY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS

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DIMENSIONS OF CIVIL SOCIETY MEASUREMENTS

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• RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:

•Data assembly vs. Analytics

• RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES:

•Descriptive vs. Evaluative

TYPES OF CIVIL SOCIETY MEASUREMENTS

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Research objectives

  Research methodologies

  Descriptive Evaluative

Data assembly

Guidestar, Imagine Canada, NCCS, JHCCSS; ILO Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work, NCVO

Civicus, USAID; JHCCSS Legal Index

Analytics

Nonprofit Institution Satellite Account, Satellite Accounts of Companies in the Social Economy; JHCCSS GCS Index

Civicus Diamond; USAID NGO Sustainability Index

ASSESSMENT OF CIVIL SOCIETY MEASUREMENTS

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Research

objectives

  Research methodologies

  Descriptive Evaluative

Data assembly

Objective and cross-nationally comparable, but high data assembly costs

Low data assembly cost, but subjective and not comparable across samples

Analytics

Integrates CS to macro views of economy & society, but limited by institutional inertia & availability of relevant data

Aims for specific policy objectives, but limited by absence meta-analytical framework for integrating different data elements

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