mapping civil society and social economy
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MAPPING CIVIL SOCIETY, NONPROFIT INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIAL ECONOMY
ARNOVA Meeting
Toronto, November 19, 2011
S.Wojciech Sokolowski
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society StudiesThe Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies
MAJOR CIVIL SOCIETY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS
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• Nonprofit Institutions (JHCCSS, UNSD)
• Social Economy (EC, CIRIEC)
• “Between Market & State” (CIVICUS)
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