The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to
today's democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for …

Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was
recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving …

“A fine volume on the moral meaning and function of philanthropy… makes the case that
philanthropy is essential to democratic society.”—Choice Philanthropy has existed in various …

The overlapping relationships between civil society, government, and philanthropy have a
storied history in the United States. The associative origins of civil society, which played …

The philanthropic landscape is changing dramatically as a new generation of wealthy
donors seeks to leave its mark on the public sphere. Peter Frumkin reveals in Strategic …

For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For
the philanthrocapitalists-the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they …

Aristotle, a founding father of political science, wrote,“To give away money is an easy matter
and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for …

In 2006, an article in the Economist magazine introduced the term “philanthrocapitalism” to
describe a trend sweeping philanthropic institutions: the tendency for a new breed of donors …

What kinds of elite influence count as undemocratic? Ongoing debates in American political
science have called attention to the ability of the self-interested rich to convert money into …

For the past two decades and longer, political sci-entists have been concerned with the
effects of neoliberalism on governance and social policy (Boas and Gans-Morse 2009) …