This book brings together scholars and experienced practitioners from different countries to investigate the relationship between regulation and relational governance for the third sector in a comparative context.

1. Introduction: Between Governance and Regulation:Evolving Government-Third Sector Relationships Susan D. Phillips and Steven Rathgeb Smith 2. The Case of England and Wales: Striking the Right Balance of 'Hard' Law versus'Soft' Law Debra Morris 3. Third Sector Regulation in Post-Devolution Scotland: Kilting the Charity Cuckoo Patrick Ford 4. Between Relational Governance and Regulation of the Third Sector: The Irish Case Gemma Donnelly-Cox and Siobhan Mcgee 5. Creeping Marketization and Post-Corporatist Governance: The Transformation State-Nonprofit Relations in Continental Europe Ingo Bode 6. Government Nonprofit Sector Relations In Hungary: Aspirations, Efforts and Impacts Éva Kuti 7. Gatekeeper Governance: The European Union and Civil Society Organizations Alison Dunn 8. The Government-Nonprofit Relationship in the United States: New Challenges and Possibilities Steven Rathgeb Smith 9. Incrementalism at its Best, and Worst: Regulatory Reform and Relational Governance in Canada Susan D. Phillips 10. Australia: A Continuing Love Affair with the New Public Management Mark Lyons and Bronwen Dalton 11. Global Perspectives on the Legal Framework for Civil Society and Relational Governance Douglas Rutzen

Susan Phillips is Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. She is a Visiting Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, conducting research on women in leadership in the third sector. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy, Cass Business School, City University, where she is working on regulation of the sector.

Steven Rathgeb Smith is Professor and the Waldemar A. Nielsen Chair in Philanthropy at the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. Dr. Smith was the editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ), the journal of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) from 1998-2004. His current research focuses on the citizen engagement and advocacy roles of nonprofit organizations, the evolving position of nonprofit social welfare organizations within the welfare state in Europe and the US, and the regional variation in foundations in the US.