About the Book

This book brings together scholars and experienced practitioners from different countries to investigate the relationship between regulation and relational governance for the third sector in a comparative context. First, each chapter will review recent regulatory changes in the country in question. To what extent are there significant convergences in these reforms and what are the implications for the third sector?

The chapters then move on to ask what impact does the changing regulatory and institutional framework have on shifts to more distributed or relational forms of governance? Is there any evidence that the foundational architecture for a more collaborative relationship between the state and the voluntary sector has been laid? What are the outstanding challenges for regulatory reform as well as for collaboration?