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  • 19 - Nonprofits as Distributors of Toll Goods

  • from Part III - New Directions
  • Edited by Eva Witesman, Brigham Young University, Utah, Curtis Child, Brigham Young University, Utah
  • Book:
    Reimagining Nonprofits
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 372-393

  • Summary

    Witesman provides an institutional theory of the nonprofit. The chapter considers the argument developed by the author in a 2016 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly article. In it, she proposes an institutional theory of the nonprofit that defines its distinction from public and private institutions through (1) the voluntary (rather than coercive) assignment of roles and (2) the use of the good or service by non-payers. The voluntary and redistributive nature of such nonprofit-type institutions makes them primarily compatible with the distribution of goods that are non-subtractable and excludable (toll goods). This view is in contrast to legalistic or sector-based theories of the nonprofit.

  • Transformation of Japan's Civil Society Landscape

  • Mary Alice Haddad
  • Journal:
    Journal of East Asian Studies / Volume 7 / Issue 3 / December 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 March 2016, pp. 413-437
    Print publication:
    December 2007

  • Japan's civil society is being transformed as more people volunteer for advocacy and professional nonprofit organizations. In the US context, this trend has been accompanied by a decline in participation in traditional organizations. Does the rise in new types of nonprofit groups herald a decline of traditional volunteering in Japan? This article argues that while changes in civil rights, political opportunity structure, and technology have also taken place in Japan, they have contributed to the rise of new groups without causing traditional organizations to decline, because Japanese attitudes about civic responsibility have continued to support traditional volunteering.