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The Swedish nonprofit sector in international comparison
Author(s) -
Wijkström Filip
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8292.00067
Subject(s) - nonprofit sector , mainstream , perspective (graphical) , neglect , multidisciplinary approach , civil society , private sector , work (physics) , political science , sociology , public administration , public relations , economic growth , economics , politics , psychology , law , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , psychiatry
The previous picture of the nonprofit sector in Sweden has been biased by a narrow US perspective. Mainstream nonprofit literature seems to neglect work carried out in the important but more complex tradition of the civil society. In this article, recent cross‐national data reflecting both these paradigms are presented. This gives us a better picture of the Swedish sector and highlights limitations of earlier approaches, not only for our understanding of the Swedish sector but also of the sector elsewhere. To continue the quest for the raison d’être of the sector, not only are more cross‐national data needed but we must also develop a multidisciplinary framework in which to understand the data.