Mark Sidel
Biographic Data
| ID | 119236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Sidel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Sidel |
| SIGNATURE | SIDEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9800-3215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Steering a Restrictive Course: Rebooting China’s Charity Law
When it comes to regulating nonprofits and civil society, China is steering a careful and conservative course in the Xi Jinping era, with a laser-like focus on control over civil society. This policy is illustrated clearly in the long-awaited 2023 amendments to the main law that governs the Chinese nonprofit sector, the Charity Law originally enacted in 2016. This article analyzes the key amendments to the Charity Law in 2023, with a focus on imp…
More Third Sector, Less Civil Society: Civil Society Repression, Sometime Third-Sector Robustness, and the Moulding of the Nonprofit Sector in China
Party, State, Civil Society and Covid-19 in China
In China, the story of Covid-19 and the relationship between government and civil society is not a sharp break from the past. China has long guided and controlled the development of civil society organizations, and that has not changed in the Covid era. Instead, the Covid era is a story of a continuation in restrictive policy, and responses to Covid have utilized those existing policies and regulatory framework rather than developing new policies…
Foreign Aid Reduction and Local Civil Society: Recent Research and Policy Guidance for Donors and International NGOs
The impact of foreign aid reduction on local civil society organizations has gained a growing amount of scholarly attention over the past several years. However, most research has focused on the experiences of local CSOs and their adaptations to reduced donor support. In this piece, we review the extant literature to offer a comprehensive perspective on the role of donors in the aid reduction process. We highlight the ways that donor planning and…
Managing the Foreign: The Drive to Securitize Foreign Nonprofit and Foundation Management in China
In recent years, China has sought to tighten regulation of foreign nonprofit organizations and foundations operating or funding in China, including through a new Law on the Management of the Domestic Activities of Foreign Non - governmental Organizations in China , enacted in April 2016. This article analyzes the history of China’s regulation of foreign nonprofits and foundations, the effect of external and domestic events on China’s shifting pol…
Defining the Scope of Aid Reduction and Its Challenges for Civil Society Organizations: Laying the Foundation for New Theory
Much of the literature on local civil society organizations and foreign aid focuses on the short-term consequences of funding cycles and contract conditions, but treats foreign aid at the macrolevel like a largely stable condition, as though countries receiving foreign aid will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Empirical evidence of aid reduction, however, suggests that this approach neglects long-term phenomena. This article examines…
Regulatory Waves: Comparative Perspectives on State Regulation and Self-Regulation Policies in the Nonprofit Sector
All governments, in various ways, regulate and control nonprofit organizations. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), while hopeful of supportive regulatory environments, are simultaneously seeking greater autonomy both to provide services and to advocate for policy change. In part to counter increasing statutory regulation, there is a global nonprofit sector movement towards greater grassroots regulation - what the authors call self-regulation -…
Civil Society and Civil Liberties
In the past two decades, “civil society” has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and private life, the civil sphere encompasses everything from associations to protests to church groups to nongovernmental organizations. Interest in the topic exploded with the decline of statism in the 1980s and 1990s, and many of our current debates about politics and social policy are informed…
State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam: Property, Power and Values
Pham Thi Vach, who later became a Communist Party member and secretary for the People’s Committee in Kim Ty District (Hung Yen Province), first demonstrated her leadership potential in the late 1950s, while still a teenager. Concerned by heavy rains, she mobilized her peers to save the fall harvest one year by carrying out urgently needed repairs to dikes that protect Hung Cuong Commune from catastrophic flood. Leading by example, Vach personally…
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Journal Article Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime Get access Heilemann John Halperin Mark. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. 464 pp. $27.99 (cloth); $16.99 (paper). Mark Sidel Mark Sidel University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal Histor…
State, society and the market in contemporary Vietnam
Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist state to a society in which a communist party presides over a neoliberal economy. By exploring the complex relationship between property, the state, society and the market, this book demo…
Choices and Approaches: Anti-Terrorism Law and Civil Society in the United States and the United Kingdom After September 11
In Canada, as in most nations, law and policy tied closely to counter-terrorism are among the mechanisms for regulating the spaces in which civil society functions. Since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, these mechanisms have increased in scope and importance. The United States has adopted a prosecution-based strategy in these matters, along with detailed guidance for foundations and other non-profit organizations. The United Kingdom h…
Counter-terrorism and the Regulation of Civil Society in the USA
This article examines the impact of counter-terrorism measures on non-profit regulation in the USA, where some of the most interventionist legal and policy responses took hold soon after the brutal attacks of September 2001. It highlights the sternness of these measures by comparing the US approach to counter-terrorism and charity regulation with that of the UK. It suggests that the different institutional arrangements for charity regulation in t…
Regulation of the Voluntary Sector: Freedom and Security in an Era of Uncertainty
Have we gone too far in enacting laws, promulgating regulations and announcing policies that threaten freedom of association, either now or ‘in waiting’ for the future? Regulation of the Voluntary Sector focuses on the legal and political environment for civil society in an era in which counter-terrorism policy and law have challenged civil society and civil liberties in a number of countries. The ways in which counter-terrorism law and policy af…
Law and the regulation of civil society: Nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, grassroots organizations, and the state
The key principles underlying the post-1986 reform of Vietnamese law and the legal system include a strong role for the state and an instrumentalist concept of law as serving state interests and priorities, and a notion of rights as state-granted rather than emanating from concepts of natural rights. State attitudes toward citizen-initiated social activity, expressed through law and political policy, have ranged from repressive to ambivalent in t…
Law and Society in Vietnam: The Transition from Socialism in Comparative Perspective
This book is a unique analysis of the struggle to build a rule of law in one of the world's most dynamic and vibrant nations - a socialist state that is seeking to build a market economy while struggling to pursue an ethos of social equality and opportunity. It addresses constitutional change, the assertion of constitutional claims by citizens, the formation of a strong civil society and non-profit sector, the emergence of economic law and the ba…
Vietnam's New Order: International Perspectives on the State and Reform in Vietnam
This volume brings together distinguished international specialists on Vietnam and its reform process to explore the impact of reform in Vietnam on the Vietnamese state, society, and order, and Vietna
Après le Patriot Act: La seconde vague de l'antiterrorisme aux États-Unis
This article discusses the "second wave" of anti-terrorism initiatives in the United States - those attempted by the current U.S. administration beyond the well-known "Patriot Act." After reviewing a number of those initiatives, including Total Information Awareness, the Matrix Program, the air security CAPPS II program and others, the article discusses the impact of American anti-terrorism initiatives on the academic and nonprofit sectors in the…
The Third Sector, Human Security, and Anti-Terrorism: The United States and Beyond
This paper, a revised version of the keynote address to the Seventh International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (Bangkok, July 2006), explores the increasing tendency of governments to view the third sector as a source of human insecurity and uncivil society in the wake of terrorist attacks. The paper discusses the means governments use to control third sector activity that they view as potentially linked to te…
Recent Research on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector in India and South Asia
The recent growth of the south Asian philanthropic and nonprofit sector has led to a rapid increase in the production of high-quality research on this sector. Research published in diverse forms—as books, academic articles, research monographs and reports, directories, and guides—has explored modes of giving; types of religious, private and other philanthropic organizations; and the relationship between the state and the sector. Both the quality …
Vietnam in 1998: Reform Confronts the Regional Crisis
Changing My Life: How I Came to the Vietnamese Revolution
Vietnam in 1997: A Year of Challenges
Research Article| January 01 1998 Vietnam in 1997: A Year of Challenges Mark Sidel Mark Sidel Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (1): 80–90. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645471 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mark Sidel; Vietna…
The emergence of a voluntary sector and philanthropy in Vietnam: Functions, legal regulation and prospects for the future
A significant number and wide range of Vietnamese non-profit and voluntary organisations have developed since Vietnam embarked on a programme of economic reform in late 1986. Philanthropy has begun to grow as well, albeit more slowly. The non-profit and voluntary sector and the state, each face important challenges as development of the sector accelerates. The state has sought both to encourage growth of non-profit, voluntary and philanthropic in…
Generational and Institutional Transition in the Vietnamese Communist Party: The 1996 Congress and beyond
Research Article| May 01 1997 Generational and Institutional Transition in the Vietnamese Communist Party: The 1996 Congress and beyond Mark Sidel Mark Sidel Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (5): 481–495. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645523 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools…
Managing the Foreign: The Drive to Securitize Foreign Nonprofit and Foundation Management in China
In recent years, China has sought to tighten regulation of foreign nonprofit organizations and foundations operating or funding in China, including through a new Law on the Management of the Domestic Activities of Foreign Non - governmental Organizations in China , enacted in April 2016. This article analyzes the history of China’s regulation of foreign nonprofits and foundations, the effect of external and domestic events on China’s shifting pol…
Foreign Aid Reduction and Local Civil Society: Recent Research and Policy Guidance for Donors and International NGOs
The impact of foreign aid reduction on local civil society organizations has gained a growing amount of scholarly attention over the past several years. However, most research has focused on the experiences of local CSOs and their adaptations to reduced donor support. In this piece, we review the extant literature to offer a comprehensive perspective on the role of donors in the aid reduction process. We highlight the ways that donor planning and…
Defining the Scope of Aid Reduction and Its Challenges for Civil Society Organizations: Laying the Foundation for New Theory
Much of the literature on local civil society organizations and foreign aid focuses on the short-term consequences of funding cycles and contract conditions, but treats foreign aid at the macrolevel like a largely stable condition, as though countries receiving foreign aid will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Empirical evidence of aid reduction, however, suggests that this approach neglects long-term phenomena. This article examines…
Recent Research on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector in India and South Asia
The recent growth of the south Asian philanthropic and nonprofit sector has led to a rapid increase in the production of high-quality research on this sector. Research published in diverse forms—as books, academic articles, research monographs and reports, directories, and guides—has explored modes of giving; types of religious, private and other philanthropic organizations; and the relationship between the state and the sector. Both the quality …
The emergence of a voluntary sector and philanthropy in Vietnam: Functions, legal regulation and prospects for the future
A significant number and wide range of Vietnamese non-profit and voluntary organisations have developed since Vietnam embarked on a programme of economic reform in late 1986. Philanthropy has begun to grow as well, albeit more slowly. The non-profit and voluntary sector and the state, each face important challenges as development of the sector accelerates. The state has sought both to encourage growth of non-profit, voluntary and philanthropic in…
Steering a Restrictive Course: Rebooting China’s Charity Law
When it comes to regulating nonprofits and civil society, China is steering a careful and conservative course in the Xi Jinping era, with a laser-like focus on control over civil society. This policy is illustrated clearly in the long-awaited 2023 amendments to the main law that governs the Chinese nonprofit sector, the Charity Law originally enacted in 2016. This article analyzes the key amendments to the Charity Law in 2023, with a focus on imp…
Counter-terrorism and the Regulation of Civil Society in the USA
This article examines the impact of counter-terrorism measures on non-profit regulation in the USA, where some of the most interventionist legal and policy responses took hold soon after the brutal attacks of September 2001. It highlights the sternness of these measures by comparing the US approach to counter-terrorism and charity regulation with that of the UK. It suggests that the different institutional arrangements for charity regulation in t…
The Third Sector, Human Security, and Anti-Terrorism: The United States and Beyond
This paper, a revised version of the keynote address to the Seventh International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (Bangkok, July 2006), explores the increasing tendency of governments to view the third sector as a source of human insecurity and uncivil society in the wake of terrorist attacks. The paper discusses the means governments use to control third sector activity that they view as potentially linked to te…
Party, State, Civil Society and Covid-19 in China
In China, the story of Covid-19 and the relationship between government and civil society is not a sharp break from the past. China has long guided and controlled the development of civil society organizations, and that has not changed in the Covid era. Instead, the Covid era is a story of a continuation in restrictive policy, and responses to Covid have utilized those existing policies and regulatory framework rather than developing new policies…
Generational and Institutional Transition in the Vietnamese Communist Party: The 1996 Congress and beyond
Research Article| May 01 1997 Generational and Institutional Transition in the Vietnamese Communist Party: The 1996 Congress and beyond Mark Sidel Mark Sidel Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (5): 481–495. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645523 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools…
Latin American Studies in the People's Republic of China
While information regarding Latin American studies programs in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union is becoming widely available to North American scholars, Latin Americanists in the United States may be surprised to know that a small, but growing, number of scholars, teachers, and researchers are studying Latin America in the People's Republic of China. This report describes the state of Latin American studies in China, its princ…
University Enrolment in the People's Republic of China, 1977‐1981: The examination model returns
On October 21st 1977, a year after the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the radical Gang of Four', the Chinese Ministry of Education announced a shift in basic educational policy which was to reverberate throughout Chinese society and which today remains both a powerful force and a controversial issue in China. Beginning with the class entering colleges and universities in early 1978, the Ministry announced that students would be enrolled in…
University Enrolment in the People's Republic of China, 1977‐1981: The examination model returns
On October 21st 1977, a year after the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the radical Gang of Four', the Chinese Ministry of Education announced a shift in basic educational policy which was to reverberate throughout Chinese society and which today remains both a powerful force and a controversial issue in China. Beginning with the class entering colleges and universities in early 1978, the Ministry announced that students would be enrolled in…
Latin American Studies in the People's Republic of China
While information regarding Latin American studies programs in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union is becoming widely available to North American scholars, Latin Americanists in the United States may be surprised to know that a small, but growing, number of scholars, teachers, and researchers are studying Latin America in the People's Republic of China. This report describes the state of Latin American studies in China, its princ…
Estudios latinoamericanos en la República Popular China
The Re-Emergence of Legal Discourse in Vietnam
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The emergence of a voluntary sector and philanthropy in Vietnam: Functions, legal regulation and prospects for the future
A significant number and wide range of Vietnamese non-profit and voluntary organisations have developed since Vietnam embarked on a programme of economic reform in late 1986. Philanthropy has begun to grow as well, albeit more slowly. The non-profit and voluntary sector and the state, each face important challenges as development of the sector accelerates. The state has sought both to encourage growth of non-profit, voluntary and philanthropic in…
Generational and Institutional Transition in the Vietnamese Communist Party: The 1996 Congress and beyond
Research Article| May 01 1997 Generational and Institutional Transition in the Vietnamese Communist Party: The 1996 Congress and beyond Mark Sidel Mark Sidel Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (5): 481–495. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645523 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools…
Changing My Life: How I Came to the Vietnamese Revolution
Vietnam in 1997: A Year of Challenges
Research Article| January 01 1998 Vietnam in 1997: A Year of Challenges Mark Sidel Mark Sidel Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (1): 80–90. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645471 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mark Sidel; Vietna…
Vietnam in 1998: Reform Confronts the Regional Crisis
Recent Research on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector in India and South Asia
The recent growth of the south Asian philanthropic and nonprofit sector has led to a rapid increase in the production of high-quality research on this sector. Research published in diverse forms—as books, academic articles, research monographs and reports, directories, and guides—has explored modes of giving; types of religious, private and other philanthropic organizations; and the relationship between the state and the sector. Both the quality …
Après le Patriot Act: La seconde vague de l'antiterrorisme aux États-Unis
This article discusses the "second wave" of anti-terrorism initiatives in the United States - those attempted by the current U.S. administration beyond the well-known "Patriot Act." After reviewing a number of those initiatives, including Total Information Awareness, the Matrix Program, the air security CAPPS II program and others, the article discusses the impact of American anti-terrorism initiatives on the academic and nonprofit sectors in the…
The Third Sector, Human Security, and Anti-Terrorism: The United States and Beyond
This paper, a revised version of the keynote address to the Seventh International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (Bangkok, July 2006), explores the increasing tendency of governments to view the third sector as a source of human insecurity and uncivil society in the wake of terrorist attacks. The paper discusses the means governments use to control third sector activity that they view as potentially linked to te…
Vietnam's New Order: International Perspectives on the State and Reform in Vietnam
This volume brings together distinguished international specialists on Vietnam and its reform process to explore the impact of reform in Vietnam on the Vietnamese state, society, and order, and Vietna
Law and the regulation of civil society: Nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, grassroots organizations, and the state
The key principles underlying the post-1986 reform of Vietnamese law and the legal system include a strong role for the state and an instrumentalist concept of law as serving state interests and priorities, and a notion of rights as state-granted rather than emanating from concepts of natural rights. State attitudes toward citizen-initiated social activity, expressed through law and political policy, have ranged from repressive to ambivalent in t…
Law and Society in Vietnam: The Transition from Socialism in Comparative Perspective
This book is a unique analysis of the struggle to build a rule of law in one of the world's most dynamic and vibrant nations - a socialist state that is seeking to build a market economy while struggling to pursue an ethos of social equality and opportunity. It addresses constitutional change, the assertion of constitutional claims by citizens, the formation of a strong civil society and non-profit sector, the emergence of economic law and the ba…
Regulation of the Voluntary Sector: Freedom and Security in an Era of Uncertainty
Have we gone too far in enacting laws, promulgating regulations and announcing policies that threaten freedom of association, either now or ‘in waiting’ for the future? Regulation of the Voluntary Sector focuses on the legal and political environment for civil society in an era in which counter-terrorism policy and law have challenged civil society and civil liberties in a number of countries. The ways in which counter-terrorism law and policy af…
Counter-terrorism and the Regulation of Civil Society in the USA
This article examines the impact of counter-terrorism measures on non-profit regulation in the USA, where some of the most interventionist legal and policy responses took hold soon after the brutal attacks of September 2001. It highlights the sternness of these measures by comparing the US approach to counter-terrorism and charity regulation with that of the UK. It suggests that the different institutional arrangements for charity regulation in t…
Choices and Approaches: Anti-Terrorism Law and Civil Society in the United States and the United Kingdom After September 11
In Canada, as in most nations, law and policy tied closely to counter-terrorism are among the mechanisms for regulating the spaces in which civil society functions. Since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, these mechanisms have increased in scope and importance. The United States has adopted a prosecution-based strategy in these matters, along with detailed guidance for foundations and other non-profit organizations. The United Kingdom h…
Civil Society and Civil Liberties
In the past two decades, “civil society” has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and private life, the civil sphere encompasses everything from associations to protests to church groups to nongovernmental organizations. Interest in the topic exploded with the decline of statism in the 1980s and 1990s, and many of our current debates about politics and social policy are informed…
State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam: Property, Power and Values
Pham Thi Vach, who later became a Communist Party member and secretary for the People’s Committee in Kim Ty District (Hung Yen Province), first demonstrated her leadership potential in the late 1950s, while still a teenager. Concerned by heavy rains, she mobilized her peers to save the fall harvest one year by carrying out urgently needed repairs to dikes that protect Hung Cuong Commune from catastrophic flood. Leading by example, Vach personally…
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Journal Article Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime Get access Heilemann John Halperin Mark. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. 464 pp. $27.99 (cloth); $16.99 (paper). Mark Sidel Mark Sidel University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal Histor…
State, society and the market in contemporary Vietnam
Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist state to a society in which a communist party presides over a neoliberal economy. By exploring the complex relationship between property, the state, society and the market, this book demo…
Regulatory Waves: Comparative Perspectives on State Regulation and Self-Regulation Policies in the Nonprofit Sector
All governments, in various ways, regulate and control nonprofit organizations. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), while hopeful of supportive regulatory environments, are simultaneously seeking greater autonomy both to provide services and to advocate for policy change. In part to counter increasing statutory regulation, there is a global nonprofit sector movement towards greater grassroots regulation - what the authors call self-regulation -…
Defining the Scope of Aid Reduction and Its Challenges for Civil Society Organizations: Laying the Foundation for New Theory
Much of the literature on local civil society organizations and foreign aid focuses on the short-term consequences of funding cycles and contract conditions, but treats foreign aid at the macrolevel like a largely stable condition, as though countries receiving foreign aid will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Empirical evidence of aid reduction, however, suggests that this approach neglects long-term phenomena. This article examines…
Managing the Foreign: The Drive to Securitize Foreign Nonprofit and Foundation Management in China
In recent years, China has sought to tighten regulation of foreign nonprofit organizations and foundations operating or funding in China, including through a new Law on the Management of the Domestic Activities of Foreign Non - governmental Organizations in China , enacted in April 2016. This article analyzes the history of China’s regulation of foreign nonprofits and foundations, the effect of external and domestic events on China’s shifting pol…
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