Regulating Charities
The Inside Story
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Book Description
In this volume charity commissioners and leading charity policy reformers from across the world reflect on the aims and objectives of charity regulation and what it has achieved. Regulating Charities represents an insider’s review of the last quarter century of charity law policy and an insight for its future development.
Charity Commissioners and nonprofit regulatory agency heads chart the nature of charity law reforms that they have implemented, with a ‘warts and all’ analysis. They are joined by influential sector reformers who assess the outcomes of their policy agitation. All reflect on the current state of charities in a fiscally restrained environment, often with conservative governments, and offer their views on productive regulatory paths available for the future.
This topical collection brings together major charity regulation actors, and will be of great interest to anyone concerned with contemporary third sector policy-making, public administration and civil society.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Myles McGregor-Lowndes and Bob Wyatt
Part England and Wales
2. Towards Regulation: Modernising the Original Charity Commission
Richard Fries
3. The Reforming Regulator
Lindsay Driscoll
4. Reflections on Modernising and Reforming Regulation
Sir Stuart Etherington
Part United States of America
5. Challenged Regulators
Marcus Owens
6. Reflections on Challenged Regulators
Elizabeth T. Boris and Cindy M. Lott
Part Canada
7. The Prevention of Harm Regulator
Terry de March
8. Reflections on the Long and Winding Road of Regulation
Bob Wyatt
Part New Zealand
9. The Evanescent Regulator
Trevor Garrett
10. Reflections on Regulatory Accountability
Sue Barker
Part Australia
11. The Digital Regulator
Susan Pascoe
12. Reflections on Birthing a Regulator
Ursula Stephens
Part Conclusion
13. Conclusion
Myles McGregor-Lowndes and Bob Wyatt
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Biography
Myles McGregor-Lowndes is a professor and the founding Director of the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at the QUT Business School, Australia.
Bob Wyatt is executive director of The Muttart Foundation, a private Canadian foundation that has engaged in issues of charity regulation for more than two decades.