A Corporate Form Of Freedom
Subtitle: the Emergence Of The Modern Nonprofit Sector
By: Norman Silber
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780429502705
Subjects: Nonprofit organizations; Law and legislation; History; Associations sans but lucratif; Aspect politique; Histoire
Description: "A Corporate Form of Freedom explores how courts and legislatures have decided which nonprofit groups can pursue their missions as corporations. For many years it was a privilege to hold a nonprofit charter. This view changed during the 1950s and 1960s. A new generation contended that legal theory, racial justice, and democratic values demanded that the nonprofit corporate form be available to all groups as a matter of right. As a result, nonprofit corporate status became America's corporate form for free expression. The new perspective did more than enlarge public discourse, however. It also reduced official authority to supervise or otherwise hold nonprofit organizations accountable for their activities. Norman I. Silber examines how the nonprofit world was transformed -- a transformation which refashioned political and social discourse, altered the economy, and created many of the difficulties the nonprofit sector faces today."--Provided by publisher.