The International Journal
of Not-for-Profit Law
Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2005
A publication of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Latin America
The Promise and Peril of Democracy (Full Text of Speech)
Jimmy Carter
The Promise and Peril of Democracy (Summary)
Joseph Proietti
Threat Resurges for Venezuelan NGOs [Spanish Translation]
Antonio L. Itriago and Miguel Ángel Itriago
Transparency Versus Government Supervision in Peru [Spanish Translation]
Beatriz Parodi Luna
Federal Law for the Promotion of Civil Society Organizations in Mexico
Consuelo Castro
Active Without Recognition: Obstacles to Development of the Colombian Third Sector
Adriana Ruiz-Restrepo
The Role of the Media in the Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America
The Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
Articles
Philanthropy and Law in South Asia: Key Themes and Key Choices
Mark Sidel and Iftekhar Zaman
The Role of a National Donor Association: A U.S. Perspective
Robert Buchanan
California’s Nonprofit Integrity Act of 2004
Thomas Silk and Rosemary Fei
Progress on Civil Society Legislation in Turkey
Filiz Bikmen
Taxation of Grants in Russia
Yulia Checkmaryova
Reviews
Civil Society
By Michael Edwards
Reviewed by Stephan Klingelhofer
The Law of Charities
By Peter Luxton
Reviewed by Richard Fries
Does Civil Society Matter?: Governance in Contemporary India
Edited by Rajesh Tandon & Ranjita Mohanty
Reviewed by Bindu Sharma
Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation
By Marion R. Fremont-Smith
Reviewed by Michael Bisesi
Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory
Edited by Maria Todorova
Reviewed by Gerald M. Easter
Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism and Cause Lawyering
By Stuart A. Scheingold and Austin Sarat
Reviewed by Patricia Lyons
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Letter from the Editor
This issue of the International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law opens with a special section on Latin America. We're proud to feature the reflections of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, followed by on-the-ground reports from Antonio L. Itriago and Miguel Angel Itriago, Beatriz Parodi Luna, Consuelo Castro, and Adriana Ruiz-Restrepo, and, finally, a conference report from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Our general articles address pertinent issues in the United States, South Asia, Turkey, and Russia, as analyzed by Mark Sidel and Iftekhar Zaman, Robert Buchanan, Thomas Silk and Rosemary Fei, Filiz Bikmen, and Yulia Checkmaryova.
Our book reviews range widely too, topically (from the theoretical to the pragmatic) as well as geographically (including England, India, the Balkan Peninsula, the United States). Among our reviewers are Stephan E. Klingelhofer, Richard Fries, Bindu Sharma, Michael Bisesi, Gerald M. Easter, and Patricia Lyons.
We gratefully acknowledge the aid of the Carter Center, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, SEAL Journal, and our expert authors.
Stephen Bates
Editor
International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law
sbates@icnl.org
ICNL is grateful to those who are supporting or who have supported this publication in the past, including the United States Agency for International Development, the Catholic University of America, the World Bank, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Wallace Global Fund, the Helen Bader Foundation, the Compton Foundation, the American Express Foundation, the AT&T Foundation, the GE Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Alcoa Foundation, the Chevron Corporation, the Counterpart Foundation, the Aga Khan Foundation, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the Asian Development Bank, and the Eurasia Foundation