Editorial: Social change, civil society and the state…the struggle continues

Governance, Social Accountability and the Civil Society

This paper reviews the current literature on social accountability as a means to achieve good governance and increased public participation for improved public service delivery. After a brief discussion on concept and tools of social accountability, this paper illustrates that such innovations have led to improvements in the performance of state agencies and actors in varying contexts across th...

Social Origins of Civil Society:

PREFACE This is one in a series of Working Papers produced by the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, a collaborative effort by scholars in over twenty countries to understand the scope, structure, and role of the nonprofit sector using a common framework and approach. The Working Papers provide a vehicle for the initial dissemination of the work of the Project to an internation...

Civil Society, Corporate Accountability and the Politics of Climate Change

Editorial: EHP Evolution Continues

Mini-Monograph series this year, instead publishing more Review articles on topics that might once have been covered by Mini-Monographs. Here, we explain that decision and give some historical perspective on the Mini-Monographs. EHP was begun in 1972 by David P. Rall, then director of the NIEHS. In addition to publishing original research articles, the journal was intended as a means of publish...

Editorial comment: The management debate continues!

In order to decrease the morbidity of inguinal lymph node staging among patients with invasive penile cancer (and negative inguinal examinations) risk adapted strategies are now commonly used to select candidates who are at low risk for inguinal microscopic dissemination based upon primary tumor histology and anatomic structure invaded. There appears to be consensus that factors associated with...