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  • 1.  IMD-L Digest - 16 Feb 2018 to 19 Feb 2018 (#2018-45)

    Posted 02-20-2018 00:03
    Colleagues:

    Several scholars on this list study nonprofits/NGOs and have written on governance failures. The article
    we published on the Oxfam scandal in the Washington Post/Monkey Cage Today might interest them:
    The Oxfam scandal shows that, yes, nonprofits can behave badly. So why arenʼt they overseen like for-profits?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/02/19/the-oxfam-scandal-shows-that-yes-nonprofits-can-behave-badly-so-why-arent-they-overseen-like-for-profits/?utm_term=.2c52a0e35df4

    The civic sector plays an important role in the contemporary society.Yet, the Oxfam scandal (and other scandals that are now getting revealed as well as the cover-up at Oxfam since 2011 of the Haiti episode) raises serious questions about our theoretical understanding of the NGO/nonprofit sector.

    Aseem
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    Aseem Prakash
    Professor, Department of Political Science
    Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
    Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
    39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530
    University of Washington
    Seattle, WA 98195-3530

    http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/
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