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Overview

Lester M. Salamon was affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on social sciences, with particular contributions to sociology and political science, public administration, demography, finance, and strategy and management.

The scientist's work engaged heavily with topics related to the nonprofit sector and volunteering, public policy and administration research, tourism, volunteerism and development, religion, society, and development, as well as community development and social impact and political influence and corporate strategies.

Salamon published several papers, including:

  • Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up, 2022, VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
  • Subnational Variations in Civil Society Development: The Surprising Case of Russia, 2020, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • Putting Nonprofits on the Policy Agenda of Post-Soviet Russia: A Story of Convergence, 2020, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Their frequent coauthors included Megan A. Haddock, Stefan Toepler, Yulia Skokova, Irina Krasnopolskaya, and Vladimir Benevolenski.

Salamon's publications appeared most often in the journals Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.

Best Publications

  • The tools of government : a guide to the new governance

    Lester M Salamon;Odus V Elliott

  • Social Origins of Civil Society: Explaining the Nonprofit Sector Cross-Nationally

    Lester M. Salamon;Helmut K. Anheier

  • Defining the nonprofit sector : a cross-national analysis

    Lester M. Salamon;Helmut K. Anheier

  • Partners in Public Service: Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State

    Lester M. Salamon

  • The Rise of the Nonprofit Sector

    Lester M. Salamon

  • The New Governance and the Tools of Public Action: An Introduction

    Lester M. Salamon

  • Of Market Failure, Voluntary Failure, and Third-Party Government: Toward a Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State

    Lester M. Salamon

  • Global civil society: dimensions of the nonprofit sector

    Lester M. Salamon;S. Wojciech Sokolowski

  • The Emerging Nonprofit Sector: An Overview

    Lester M. Salamon;Helmut K. Anheier

  • In search of the non-profit sector. I: The question of definitions

    Lester M. Salamon;Helmut K. Anheier

  • Volunteering in cross-national perspective: initial comparisons

    Helmut K. Anheier;Lester M. Salamon

  • Government and the Third Sector: Emerging Relationships in Welfare States

    Benjamin Gidron;Ralph M. Kramer;Lester M. Salamon

  • The Marketization of Welfare: Changing Nonprofit and For-Profit Roles in the American Welfare State

    Lester M. Salamon

  • Economic Power and Political Influence: The Impact of Industry Structure on Public Policy

    Lester M. Salamon;John J. Siegfried

  • The State of Nonprofit America

    Lester M. Salamon

  • The Emerging Sector: An Overview

    Lester M. Salamon;Helmut K. Anheier

  • America's Nonprofit Sector: A Primer

    Lester M Salamon

  • 4. The Nonprofit Sector in Comparative Perspective

    Helmut K. Anheier;Lester M. Salamon

  • The Resilient Sector: The State of Nonprofit America

    Lester M. Salamon

  • In search of the non-profit sector II: The problem of classification

    Lester M. Salamon;Helmut K. Anheier

  • Government–Nonprofit Cooperation: Anomaly or Necessity?

    Lester M. Salamon;Lester M. Salamon;Stefan Toepler;Stefan Toepler

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominic J. Brewer
Dominic J. Brewer University of Southern California
Charles F. Sabel
Charles F. Sabel Columbia University
Anne L. Schneider
Anne L. Schneider Arizona State University
John J. Siegfried
John J. Siegfried Vanderbilt University
Charles T. Clotfelter
Charles T. Clotfelter Duke University
Jeffrey L. Brudney
Jeffrey L. Brudney University of North Carolina Wilmington

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