H K Anheier
Biographic Data
| ID | 21013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H K Anheier |
| GIVEN NAMES | H K |
| FAMILY NAME | Anheier |
| SIGNATURE | ANHEIER H K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2443-659X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 105 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 355 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 102 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Sub‐Saharan Africa: Towards better governance and sustainability
The countries of the Sub‐Saharan region have, on average, made significant progress in governance performance, especially in terms of democratic accountability and public goods provision—findings that seem to contradict patterns of state fragility and economic underdevelopment common in the region. This article explores this seeming contradiction and presents in more detail findings from the Berggruen Governance Index regarding the governance per…
Advancing governance indicator systems: Lessons learned from the 2022 symposium
The Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) is a new and innovative entry into the crowded domain of quantitative governance research. In its effort to contribute to the field, the BGI builds off of and acts in dialogue with several other governance indicator projects from across the globe. As part of a collaborative outlook, the BGI convened the first of three symposia at the UCLA Luskin School in October 2022, titled ‘Advancing Governance Indicator Sy…
Advancing governance indicators: Four ways forward
This article goes beyond the presentation, assessment and discussion of the Berggruen Governance Index by suggesting potential next steps for governance indicators and relevant data systems more generally. Specifically, it addresses four ways to advance research on governance performance. The first two, greater cross‐validation and cross‐fertilisation and a systematic assessment of the legal‐regulatory context, address the two major challenges of…
Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index III . Implications for theory and policy
This article looks at some of the major implications for theory and policy that follow from the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI). After discussing the BGI's quality as an indicator in more general terms, the article explores two types of implications. The first are conceptual implications that relate to an improved understanding of governance, democracy and economic development. They illustrate the highly contingent patterns that emerge from the …
Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index I: Conceptual and methodological framework
Governance is at the heart of how well governments meet public needs and manage a wide array of common problems. Why do some countries perform poorly in delivering healthcare, reducing inequality, providing a clean environment or delivering some other public good to their populations even while they have the resources to do so? Does the capacity of states to provide the basics for societies to thrive depend on forms of democratic accountability t…
Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index II: Initial results, 2000–2019
This article presents an overview of some of the main findings from our analysis of the Berggruen Governance Index for the 2000–2019 period. It first examines overall governance performance across world regions, singles out general trends and identifies top and bottom performers. It then briefly reviews the comparative governance performance of world powers like the United States, Brazil, China, major European countries, India and Russia as well …
The 21st century trust and leadership problem: Quoi faire
Much of the democratic world faces a form of socio‐political crisis. To varying degrees, four trends seem to be present in almost every case: declining institutional trust, failing leadership, increasing political polarisation, and weakened accountability. Although each trend has its own dynamic and causes, they jointly create complex challenges and governance problems for democratic societies. Furthermore, underlying them all is the persistent p…
Secret Societies
Global Social Sciences? Introducing a Series of Special Collections on the State and the Potential of the Social Sciences across the Globe
Nominally, the social sciences maintain the ideological aspiration of a unified, global endeavor for a better understanding of human societies, their economies, cultures, and polities. Over 150 years after their founding period, there is significant fragmentation and unevenness in this quest to understand the human condition. Distinct hierarchies and exclusionary structures emerged between the “West” and regions like Latin America, Africa, the Mi…
Interview: Michael Mann and Helmut K. Anheier
In this interview, Helmut K. Anheier and Michael Mann first discuss Mann’s work on the sociology of power, especially the types and sources of power. They then focus on the rise and fall of empires and his analysis of wars, as well as current international tensions, especially US-China relations and a revisionist Russia. Throughout, they focus on longer-term economic and sociopolitical developments that may affect the future of the liberal order
Civil Society and Sustainability: An Essay on the Long View
Interview: Mary Kaldor and Helmut K. Anheier
In this interview, Mary Kaldor and Helmut K. Anheier examine the state of Eastern Europe thirty years after the fall of communism; they explore the differences between old wars and new wars, the relevance of Clausewitz in the field of international relations today, the problem of methodological nationalism, and what the social sciences mean today. They also talk about the impact of neoliberalism, the state of democracy, and the role of civil soci…
Interview: Andreas Wimmer and Helmut K. Anheier
In this interview, Helmut K Anheier and Andreas Wimmer discuss his work on methodological nationalism, nation building, democracy, war, and longer-term economic, socio-political developments. They also explore the post-colonial debate and the decolonization movement in the academy. They touch upon foresight methods and review the state of the social sciences, in particular anthropology and sociology
Interview: Steffen Mau and Helmut K. Anheier
In this interview, Steffen Mau and Helmut K. Anheier discuss Professor Mau’s writing on postcommunist East Germany, the nature of modern borders, the quantification of the social, and the current state of the social sciences. They explore the lingering social cleavages in unified Germany, discuss how borders have expanded and transformed since the end of the Cold War, and ask what changes are needed to keep the social sciences relevant for the tw…
Theorie als Beruf: Festschrift für Wolfgang Schluchter
The Dahrendorf Quandary, Crisis Severity, and Country Performance
Dahrendorf ́s Quandary, an early formulation of the Rodrik Trilemma, stipulates that maintaining economic competitiveness requires countries either to adopt measures detrimental to the cohesion of civil society, or to restrict civil liberties and political participation. The global financial and economic crisis of 2008–09 offers a test case for the applicability of the Quandary. We do so by examining economic, political and social stressors affli…
Networks, Organizations, Institutions: An Interview with Walter W. Powell, Stanford University
In this interview, Walter W. Powell and Helmut K. Anheier review the evolution of organizational sociology and institutionalism over the last thirty years, including the formation of new organizational forms such as network organizations. They also touch upon nonprofit and civil society research, and discuss the state of sociology and the social sciences more generally
The Rodrik Trilemma and the Dahrendorf Quandary: An Empirical Assessment
Rodrik’s Trilemma rests on the incompatibility of democracy, national sovereignty, and global economic integration: any two can be combined, but never all three simultaneously and in full. Addressing the same problèmatique but from a different perspective, Dahrendorf’s Quandary posits that, over time, maintaining global economic competitiveness requires countries either to adopt measures detrimental to the cohesion of civil society or to restrict…
Managing the Impossible?” Comparing How Countries Address the Dahrendorf Quandary
This paper examines the policy approaches and measures that developed market economies countries have adopted to “manage” what has become known as the Dahrendorf Quandary, a profound challenge facing globalizing economies: over time, staying economically competitive requires either adopting measures detrimental to the cohesion of society or restricting civil liberties and political participation. Examining a range of countries over time, it is fo…
Nongovernmental Organizations
Nongovernmental organizations or NGOs are part of a larger set of organizations that are self‐governing, not‐for‐profit, noncompulsory, and institutionally separate from government. They emerged mostly during the process of mid‐twentieth‐century modernization and globalization, grew in scale and scope in subsequent decades, and assumed greater importance following the end of the Cold War. This was largely due to favorable economic, political, and…
Zivilgesellschaft zwischen Repression und Vernachlässigung
Das Verhältnis zwischen Staat und Zivilgesellschaft ist in letzter Zeit komplexer geworden. In einigen Ländern hat sich das Verhältnis derart verschlechtert, dass von einem shrinking space für die Zivilgesellschaft gesprochen wird. Diese Diagnose gilt jedoch hauptsächlich für autoritäre und illiberale politische Systeme, die der Zivilgesellschaft mit Repression begegnen. Zivilgesellschaftliche Räume schrumpfen jedoch auch in Demokratien: weniger …
Enhancing Europe’s Power: A Rejoinder
This rejoinder responds to the eight comments to our report on ‘Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals’. We address questions related to our definition of Europe, the notion of power, context and appropriateness of the scenario approach, the feasibility of enhancing European power, the rationale behind the proposed eight measures as well as the way ahead. Finally, we highlight green policies together with media …
Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals
In the present context of intensifying competition between the major trading economies and potentially game‐changing technological developments, the European Union is generally seen as the weaker party. Lacking the ‘hard power’ derived from military capabilities, it has laid claim to a ‘soft power’ of normative influence externally, yet even that is only partially utilised. Nor has Europe been able to exercise the power to coerce – ‘sharp power’ …
The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management
Over the past three decades or so, the nonprofit, voluntary, or third sector has undergone a major transformation from a small cottage industry to a major economic force in virtually every part of the developed world as well as elsewhere around the globe. Nonprofit organizations are now major providers of public services working in close cooperation with governments at all levels and increasingly find themselves in competition with commercial fir…
Cultures, Values, and Identities: What Are the Issues
Forms of Capital and Social Structure in Cultural Fields: Examining Bourdieu's Social Topography
This article tests one key assumption of Bourdieu's theory of culture fields: that actors are positioned in a "topography" of social relations according to their endowments of economic, social, and cultural capital. Blockmodeling procedures are used to analyze data on German writers and to indentify a social structure in which positions vary according to the types and amounts of capital accumulated. A strong split between elite and marginal write…
Interpersonal trust and voluntary associations: Examining Three Approaches
The relationship between interpersonal trust and membership in voluntary associations is a persistent research finding in sociology. What is more, the notion of trust has become a central issue in current social science theorizing covering such diverse approaches as transaction costs economics or cognitive sociology. In different ways and for different purposes, these approaches address the role of voluntary organizations, although, as this paper…
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
A health delivery system (HDS) is like a machine that consists of a series of gears that – driven by general interest – contribute to the cohesion, social justice, and sustainable development of a community. Each one, with its own frame and its own history, needs to improve health, equity, responsiveness, and respect for human beings' dignity. The COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020 reinforced the importance of health delivery systems. A digit…
The third sector and the European Union policy process: An Initial Evaluation
The third, voluntary or non-profit sector has recently emerged as a recognized actor in the EU policy process. Yet, at the same time, most of the initiatives associated with it have been characterized by inertia, delays and perceived low salience from the perspective of many of the leading actors involved. This article represents a first attempt to explore and explain this situation, drawing upon Kingdon's 'independent streams' approach. Five int…
In search of the non-profit sector II: The problem of classification
Building on a previous Voluntas article (Salamon and Anheier, 1992b), which formulated a systematic approach to defining the non-profit sector for purposes of comparative research, this article takes on the complementary task of formulating a classification system that can be used to differentiate systematically the types of non-profit organisations that exist at the global level. To do so, the artide first assesses a number of existing classific…
Literary Myths and Social Structure
The lives of writers are subject to a variety of myths. This article shows that such cultural perceptions of writers bear a close affinity to the social structure of literature in modern societies. Two structural properties seem to encourage the proliferation of myths about writers: (1) the existence of a group of prominent writers who occupy unique social positions and form an amorphous elite and (2) the relation between the elite and the large …
The Literary Field: An Empirical Investigation of Bourdieu's Sociology of Art
Bourdieu describes the structure of society as a result of class conflicts and status competition. Art in general, and the literary field in particular, is interpreted as a differentiated social field that is autonomous in the sense that it follows its own logic - the competition for cultural legitimation. What literature has in common with other social systems is the stratification of its internal structure into a hierarchical arrangement. Thus …
Policy Neglect: The True Challenge to the Nonprofit Sector
The relationship between many governments and the nonprofit sector as well as organized civil society more generally has become more complex, laden with often hidden tensions. In some cases, state–nonprofit sector relationships have deteriorated, which has led experts and activists to speak of a “shrinking space” for civil society. However, this diagnosis applies mostly to illiberal and autocratic countries. More widespread is a stagnation in sta…
The civil society sector
What Kind of Nonprofit Sector, What Kind of Society: Comparative Policy Reflections
Nonprofit organizations and the nonprofit sector more generally are part of a complex dual transition from industrial to postindustrial society and from national state to transnational policy regimes. This transition shows the beginnings of a new policy dialogue in addressing the future role of nonprofit organizations and involves three broad perspectives that have become prominent in recent years: First, nonprofits are increasingly part of new p…
Civil Society in Transition: The East German Third Sector ten Years After Unification
This paper examines two competing views that have been put forward about the East German third sector.One view sees the third sector in East Germany as an expression of civil society, rooted in an emerging democratic culture, and based on a broadening social participation.According to the other view, the East German third sector is largely an extension of West German organisations that, in the process of "peaceful colonisation," created "organisa…
Philanthropic Foundations in Cross-National Perspective: A Comparative Approach
Comparative studies on philanthropic foundations are still in their infancy. To advance the comparative understanding, the article proposes to use two countries-the United States and Germany-as comparative cases against which to assess the main contours of foundations in other countries. Both countries have large foundations communities; yet both are rather distinct in terms of their historical development as well as in terms of their institution…
Welfare Regimes, Policy Reforms, and Hybridity
The Emerging Nonprofit Sector: An Overview
Nonprofit organizations, which collectively make up the emerging sector, have an increasingly influential role in the economies and societies of countries throughout the world. This book, the product of comprehensive international research into the sector, offers an international overview of its scope, structure, financing and role. The authors provide a comparative summary of the findings of individual empirical analyses into the nonprofit secto…
Shifting Boundaries: Long‐term changes in the size of the for‐profit, nonprofit, cooperative and government sectors
The non-profit sector in East Germany: Before and after unification
The paper describes how the non-profit sector in East Germany has passed through several distinct phases in recent years. It shows how the role of the non-profit sector under the system of party dominance and centralised economic and social planning signified a major contradiction of East German society: the artificial under-development of civic society in eastern Europe's most successful economy. During the first phase of the transition period i…
Foundations in Germany: A Portrait
The article presents the findings of a research project on the roles and positioning of foundations in Germany, with a focus on the fields of education, higher education, social services, and arts and culture. Results show that fields as well as differences in size and mode of operation are key to understanding the roles and positioning of foundations. Germany is a coordinated market economy with a conservative welfare regime and a corporatist no…
Civil Society and Sustainability: An Essay on the Long View
Philanthropic Foundations: What Rationales
Foundations are among the oldest existing institutions. They have existed, in various forms, across many cultures throughout history, and have been experiencing a veritable renaissance over the last two decades, both in the United States and elsewhere. What are the rationales for foundations in modern societies, and what propels their growth in scale and scope in the early 21st century? Posing fundamental questions, the present essay, written in …
Ten Years After: The Third Sector and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
This issue of the journal offers a thematic collection of articles, representing revised versions of the best of the papers prepared for the Fifth VOLUNTAS Symposium, which took place at Charles University, Prague, in October 1999. The symposium was timed to mark the tenth anniversary of the many far-reaching changes that took hold of the region in the fall of 1989, when, constitutionally, liberal democracy replaced “really existing socialism.” I…
Movement Cycles and the Nazi Party: Activities of the Munich NSDAP, 1925-1930
Following insights of social movement theory, this article looks at movement cycles in the initial development of the Nazi Party. Specifically, it explores the framing strategies the party employed in trying to make efficient use of opportunity structures in the political discourse of the late 1920s. On the basis of a content analysis of the official party newspaper, the authors analyze the topics of political events and speeches the Nazi Party o…
Structural analysis and strategic research design: Studying politicized interorganizational networks
Zur Sozialposition und Netzwerkstruktur von Schriftstellern
Der Aufsatz interpretiert die Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Kölner Schriftstellern. Mit Hilfe der Blockmodellanalyse werden die Autoren in vier Subgruppen (Elite, Nachwuchselite, Peripherie, etablierte Peripherie) eingeteilt. Die Subgruppen werden in ihrer Binnenstruktur und in ihrem Verhältnis zueinander näher bestimmt. In einem zweiten Schritt wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit es sich bei der Sozialposition des Literaten um eine ökonomisc…
Cultures, Values, and Identities: What Are the Issues
Foundations in Germany: Culture and the Arts
The article discusses how the structure of the German cultural landscape shapes the self-understanding and positioning of philanthropic foundations that engage in art and culture. The contribution undertakes a mapping of the different forms of roles and relationships that foundations use to gain impact in this field of activity. The main argument is that in a field characterized by a high multiplicity of actors with partly overlapping and sometim…
A Review Essay on Recent Urban Social Science in West Germany: Social Ecology and Community Power Studies
Editors' Note: The following essay was originally submitted as a book review. As John Walton notes in his introduction, modern urban sociology has its roots in German and French traditions. Since this essay reviews the most important recent developments in German urban social science, we have taken the unusual step of treating this review essay as an article in the context of this symposium on European urban social science
Structural analysis and strategic research design: Studying politicized interorganizational networks
The Socio-Genesis of Psychological Distress in Developing Countries: Industrial Workers in Nigeria
This paper develops a basic causal model describing the effects of factors such as socialisation, rural-urban background, current occupation, perceived job stressors and locus of control as determinants of psychological distress in a sample of Nigerian factory workers. The analysis builds upon major results and theories of causation of psychological distress in African populations experiencing high rates of social change. Findings regarding perce…
Zur Sozialposition und Netzwerkstruktur von Schriftstellern
Der Aufsatz interpretiert die Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Kölner Schriftstellern. Mit Hilfe der Blockmodellanalyse werden die Autoren in vier Subgruppen (Elite, Nachwuchselite, Peripherie, etablierte Peripherie) eingeteilt. Die Subgruppen werden in ihrer Binnenstruktur und in ihrem Verhältnis zueinander näher bestimmt. In einem zweiten Schritt wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit es sich bei der Sozialposition des Literaten um eine ökonomisc…
The Literary Field: An Empirical Investigation of Bourdieu's Sociology of Art
Bourdieu describes the structure of society as a result of class conflicts and status competition. Art in general, and the literary field in particular, is interpreted as a differentiated social field that is autonomous in the sense that it follows its own logic - the competition for cultural legitimation. What literature has in common with other social systems is the stratification of its internal structure into a hierarchical arrangement. Thus …
The Sociology of Nonprofit Organizations and Sectors
Interest in and research on nonprofit organizations and sectors have developed rapidly in recent years. Much of this work by sociologists has focussed on particular subsectors rather than on nonprofits as a class. This review attempts to extract from a large and varied literature a distinctively sociological perspective on nonprofits, which it contrasts to influential work in economics. Two questions—“Why (and where) are there nonprofit organizat…
Employment and Earnings in the West German Nonprofit Sector
The non-profit sector in East Germany: Before and after unification
The paper describes how the non-profit sector in East Germany has passed through several distinct phases in recent years. It shows how the role of the non-profit sector under the system of party dominance and centralised economic and social planning signified a major contradiction of East German society: the artificial under-development of civic society in eastern Europe's most successful economy. During the first phase of the transition period i…
Wahlen und Wahler: Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 1987
Dieser Band ist -je nach zahlweise - die fiinfte oder siebte (schlieBt man Beitriige zur Bundestagswahl 1969 in der Politischen Vierteljahresschrift 1970 und zur Bundestagswahl 1972 in der Politischen Vierteljahresschrift 1973 ein) wahlsozio- logische Veroffentlichung, in der sich die Herausgeber und andere Sozialwissen- schaftler bemiiht haben, die Entwicldung insbesondere der deutschen Wahlsozio- logie zu fordem und ihre Ergebnisse Offentlichke…
Literary Myths and Social Structure
The lives of writers are subject to a variety of myths. This article shows that such cultural perceptions of writers bear a close affinity to the social structure of literature in modern societies. Two structural properties seem to encourage the proliferation of myths about writers: (1) the existence of a group of prominent writers who occupy unique social positions and form an amorphous elite and (2) the relation between the elite and the large …
In search of the non-profit sector II: The problem of classification
Building on a previous Voluntas article (Salamon and Anheier, 1992b), which formulated a systematic approach to defining the non-profit sector for purposes of comparative research, this article takes on the complementary task of formulating a classification system that can be used to differentiate systematically the types of non-profit organisations that exist at the global level. To do so, the artide first assesses a number of existing classific…
Economic environments and differentiation: A comparative study of informal sector economies in Nigeria
German Sociology at the Crossroads
The Third Sector: Comparative Studies of Nonprofit Organizations
Culture and Urban Society: Case Studies on the Cultural Behavior of Urban Populations and on the Importance of Culture in the City
Who Benefits from the Nonprofit Sector?Charles T. Clotfelter
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
Project Europe: Between State, Regional Autonomy and Global Society
Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City.Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
Forms of Capital and Social Structure in Cultural Fields: Examining Bourdieu's Social Topography
This article tests one key assumption of Bourdieu's theory of culture fields: that actors are positioned in a "topography" of social relations according to their endowments of economic, social, and cultural capital. Blockmodeling procedures are used to analyze data on German writers and to indentify a social structure in which positions vary according to the types and amounts of capital accumulated. A strong split between elite and marginal write…
Organizational Failures and Bankruptcies: What Are the Issues
Success and Failure in Institutional Development: A Network Approach
This article employs a network approach to analyze two competing perspectives on success and failure patterns in organizational development: Michels's oligarchy thesis, which predicts that successful organizations are characterized by an elite that dominates marginal members, and Olson's free rider thesis, which posits that success depends on the extent to which marginal participants can benefit from public goods provided by a small group of high…
Shifting Boundaries: Long‐term changes in the size of the for‐profit, nonprofit, cooperative and government sectors
International Relations and Politics
The civil society sector
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