Lester M. Salamon Memorial Issue, Part II

of Salamon at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow-explore similarities and differences between social origins theory (an institutional-historical explanation of different patterns of nonprofit development) and other prevailing approaches, namely welfare regime theory (describing differences between liberal, conservative and social-democratic welfare states) and varieties of capitalism (specifying country-specific institutional conditions that shape competitive advantages of companies and countries).On that basis they examine the explanatory power of social origins in the responses to the Covid pandemic in Germany, Austria, UK and USA, and find evidence of a convergence towards the welfare partnership regime pattern.Taking a deeper look at one of these countries in "Germany -Still a Welfare Partnership Country?," Annette Zimmer and Eckhard Priller, former local associates of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, chronicle the slow erosion of the partnership due to neoliberal policies that weaken the position of nonprofits by removing protections from commercial competition and strengthen the hand of government by reducing its interdependence with the sector.In "Nonprofit-Government Partnership during a Crisis: Lessons from a Critical Historical Junction," Paula Kabalo (Johns Hopkins Philanthropy Fellow '01) and Michal Almog-Bar explore the part of Salamon's voluntary failure theory that suggests that nonprofits historically predate government agencies and discuss the

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