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The tables and graphs based on the data collected are presented clearly to articulate their arguments... The Appendix too is a great resource--it includes an elaborate description of the methods used to collect data for the book. --Abhijit Roy, Sellinger Scool of Business, Loyola College in Md., International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 6/1/2004 Berry's book is a welcome addition to a growing literature about nonprofit organizations that will be valuable to the managers working to run them and to academics interested in studying them. --Amy K. Donahue, Perspectives on Politics, 9/1/2004 This book should be required reading for everyone interested in nonprofit organizations and, more generally, in political voice in American politics. It is important, substantive, and lively. --Doug Imig, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 3/1/2005 ...thoroughly researched and useful reading... -- Educational Book Review, 1/1/2004 ... chronicle[s] the distinctive set of conditions that have led nonprofits to accept lobbying restrictions in exchange for tax deductibility of charitable contributions. --Michael Bisesi, Seattle University, International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, 7/1/2004 [The book] offers crucial insight into a very real modern problem. A VOICE FOR NONPROFITS needs to be read by every social activist, as well as every non-profit organization manager, director, and those who serve on board of directors. -- The Bookwatch, 2/1/2004 This is an important book... [It] should not only stimulate a wider debate on the way the nonprofit sector should relate to government and the political process but also provoke a more determined efffort to reassert the vital role that advocacy plays in voluntary social service activities. -- Social Development Issues

""The tables and graphs based on the data collected are presented clearly to articulate their arguments... The Appendix too is a great resource--it includes an elaborate description of the methods used to collect data for the book."" --Abhijit Roy, Sellinger Scool of Business, Loyola College in Md., International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 6/1/2004 ""Berry's book is a welcome addition to a growing literature about nonprofit organizations that will be valuable to the managers working to run them and to academics interested in studying them."" --Amy K. Donahue, Perspectives on Politics, 9/1/2004 ""This book should be required reading for everyone interested in nonprofit organizations and, more generally, in political voice in American politics. It is important, substantive, and lively."" --Doug Imig, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 3/1/2005 ""...thoroughly researched and useful reading..."" -- Educational Book Review, 1/1/2004 ""... chronicle[s] the distinctive set of conditions that have led nonprofits to accept lobbying restrictions in exchange for tax deductibility of charitable contributions."" --Michael Bisesi, Seattle University, International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, 7/1/2004 ""[The book] offers crucial insight into a very real modern problem. A VOICE FOR NONPROFITS needs to be read by every social activist, as well as every non-profit organization manager, director, and those who serve on board of directors."" -- The Bookwatch, 2/1/2004 ""This is an important book... [It] should not only stimulate a wider debate on the way the nonprofit sector should relate to government and the political process but also provoke a more determined efffort to reassert the vital role that advocacy plays in voluntary social service activities."" -- Social Development Issues

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Jeffrey M. Berry is John Richard Skuse Class of 1941 Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His most recent book, The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups(Brookings, 1999) won the Policy Studies Organization's 1999 best book award. David F. Arons is codirector of Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest.

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