The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 5th Edition

CHAPTER ONETHE CHANGING CONTEXT OF NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT: Broad Trends and Policy Challenges

Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler

Globally, nonprofits have been booming since the 1980s and were one of the beneficiaries of the fall of the Iron Curtain, as the new world order accorded them new roles and responsibilities in public service delivery, fostering democracy, and engaging citizens. Over the past decade or two, however, the boom has not turned into bust but lost some of its luster as the sector has increasingly come under challenge in environments that have been changing fast both at home and globally. While authoritarianism has been pushing back democracy in the Global South through, among other things, expanding restrictions on civil ...