Erzsébet Fazekas’s research interests are organizational theory and behavior, nonprofit organizations and civil society development. She conducted extensive research on nonprofits and not-for-profit law in Eastern Europe and U.S. foundation grantmaking to post-communist countries. Her dissertation examines meso-level processes (institutional entrepreneurship and cross-national diffusion) that produce cognitive and organizational structures for the development of civil society and the nonprofit sector in post-communist Hungary. Her next research projects focus on the rise of the nonprofit lobby within and outside the United States and recent models of public management that govern the relationship between the public and nonprofit sectors via framework policy agreements. Fazekas earned an MA in Sociology from the Central European University and an MPhil from Columbia University and is to receive her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 2008.
