This article outlines major characteristics of the nonprofit sector in civil
law, common law, socialist countries, and developing countries. Largely
based on an international directory of nonprofit sector research, the article
introduces common and country-specific research themes on the nonprofit
sector in a comparative perspective. The article concludes by delineating
several implications for research in the areas of taxonomy, measurement,
intersectoral relations, and comparative institutional history.
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