Jaipur • New Delhi • Bengaluru • Guwahati • Kolkata
“This book will be particularly useful to those interested in capacity building and who need a comprehensive view of the ways that they (NGOs) work in different cultural and political settings.”
—David E. Apter
Chair, Department of Sociology and
Chair, Council on African Studies, Yale University
“(Julie Fisher) illuminates current meanings for the ambiguous term ‘civil society’ as she demonstrates the various models of how citizens organize at the local level to improve their communities and to develop political power, even while living under authoritarian systems.”
—Virginia A. Hodgkinson
Research Professor
Graduate Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
“Nongovernments rescues the concept of civil society from being a murky ideological rationale for privatization and transforms it into a clearly delineated paradigm of the complex ties between polities, economies and societies.”
—Peter Dobkin Hall
Research Scientist and Acting Director
Program on Non-Profit Organizations, Yale University
“This book is the next step in Julie Fisher’s exciting work delineating how nongovernment organizations are transforming the ways individuals and communities conduct their business, carry out their politics, and protect their rights. We cannot yet know the outcome of the nongovernmental movement throughout the world, but Julie Fisher’s broad framework and abundant detail suggest the promise and pitfalls ahead.”
—Charles H. Hamilton
Director, The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Julie Fisher is a Program Officer at the Kettering Foundation and a former scholar in residence at the Program on Non-Profit Organizations at Yale University. As an independent consultant she has worked for UNICEF, Save the Children, Lutheran World Relief, Technoserve, Trickle Up, and CIVICUS, among many other organizations. She has a doctorate in international studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
