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Book Review: Nonprofit Nation. A NewLook at the Third America

efficient, and sustainable partnership. In each case study, the features of partners are discussed at length. The author explains that each partner has been motivated by self-interest and instrumental rationality. However, the common goal and objectives of a particular development project have been assigned secondary position while giving primacy to partnership relations. For instance, in the BADP, the stated purpose of partners is to strengthen the local governance and civic process by harnessing the social capital and broadening the base of legitimate leadership. Here, insights into people’s participation and the scope of social capital would have been of significance to understand the partnership relations. In the ongoing process of globalization, there is an increasing role of the corporate sector in forging partnerships with state agencies and voluntary organizations. This aspect of the corporate sector’s social role has not been studied much by academia, though there are studies sponsored by the corporate sector to enhance their positive image. Such studies have generally ignored a value-neutral approach. Here, the author has outlined some of the interesting features of corporate partnership, namely, working together even though having diverse objectives, short-term and issue-based partnerships, more reliance on informal structures and procedures, and employment of less complex monitoring and evaluation. The author also reveals the inner dynamics of the corporate sector’s role in partnership through microanalysis, as discussed in the second case study (chap. 6). This aspect is useful in the selection of partners in developmental projects and the formulation of policies in the nonprofit sector. On the whole, this is a scholarly volume that brings out partnership relations in different combinations and highlights the comparative advantages of multiple actors addressing development problems. The book is a valuable asset that can be useful for various persons and agencies engaged in the understanding of the complex dynamics of partnership in development.