User:Roger A. Lohmann

Roger A. Lohmann, Ph.D. is a Professor of Social Work, Founder and Chair of the Nova Institute and Faculty Associate of the Regional Research Institute at West Virginia University, and formerly Adjunct Professor of Social Work and Faculty Associate of the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University and Editor, Nonprofit Management and Leadership (2000-2008). He was named to the Nonprofit Times list of the 50 Most Powerful & Influential People in the Nonprofit Sector in 2007.

 Where Roger lives it is approximately: 09:21

Publications

Dr. Lohmann is co-editor (along with Jon Van Til) of Resolving Community Conflicts and Problems: Public Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue. Columbia University Press (currently at the publisher). He is also co-editor with Nancy Lohmann of Rural Social Work (Columbia University Press, 2005), and co-author of Social Administration (Columbia University Press, 2002), author of '"The Commons: New Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizations, Voluntary Action and Philanthropy. (Jossey-Bass, 1992), author of Breaking Even: Financial Management in Human Services. (Temple University Press, 1980), and numerous journal articles, book chapters and encyclopedia entries. Many of these are listed at: http://wvu.academia.edu/RogerALohmann

Interests

• Civil society [r]: The space for social activity outside the market, state and household; the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. ^[e]
• Nonprofit organization [r]: An organization that is institutionalized, private, separate from government, not profit distributing, self-governing and voluntary. ^[e]
• Social policy [r]: A broad category of public, private and third sector laws, rules and procedures directed at what in the 19th century was known as "the social problem": income maintenance of the aged and poor, education (including job training), health care, personal care of designated populations at high risk of dependency (e.g., aged, mentally ill, mentally retarded, disabled) and related issues. ^[e]
• Social history [r]: A branch of history that examines ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life, social organizations, social movements and deliberate attempts to induce social change. ^[e]
• Deliberative democracy [r]: An approach in democratic political systems to opinion formation and decision-making by informed publics discussing and critically assessing multiple points of view. Deliberation is encouraged in the belief that enlarged understandings and ultimately, better decisions and policies will result. ^[e]

Contributed Pages

A running tally of most of his Citizendium contributions is here

Sandbox

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