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American Academy of Management. His work on civil society, too, did receive several awards. Not only these books but also "When Things Go Wrong" (Sage) and the Global Studies Encyclopedia (with
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Journal of Civil Society, initiated several book series (amongst others: The Culture and Globalization Series Vol. 1-5 (Sage); the Global Studies Encyclopedia (Sage); the Global Civil Society Yearbook (Oxford)), pulled together a dictionary, the International Dictionary of Nonprofit and
122:. While being a research assistant at Yale's Program on Nonprofit Organizations, he wrote his dissertation on comparative institutional development in West Africa, which involved fieldwork in Nigeria, Senegal and Togo (1983-4), and constitutes one of the first applications of comparative
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Helmut K. Anheier. Nonprofit
Organizations: Theory, Management and Policy. 2nd edition, fully revised and expanded. New York, NY, London: Routledge (2014).
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Organizations with Regina List (Taylor & Francis); and co-edited the first international encyclopedia on civil society and nonprofits.
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Governance: The Governance Report. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Helmut K. Anheier: Principal Investigator and Coordinator) (2013).
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Helmut K. Anheier and Regina List: International
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Overall, he has published over 450 academic publications, with articles in the top journals of sociological and policy research. His book
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Challenges & Innovations. Financial and Fiscal Governance. Oxford University Press (2013).
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Juergensmeyer (eds.): Global Studies Encyclopedia. 5 Volumes. London, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (2012).
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