Nonprofits for Hire /

In recent years, government's primary response to the emergent problems of homelessness, hunger, child abuse, health care, and AIDS has been generated through nonprofit agencies funded by taxpayer money. As part of the widespread movement for privatization, these agencies represent revolutionar...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Smith, Steven Rathgeb (Autor), Lipsky, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Services sociaux > Impartition > États-Unis > United States > USA.
Social service > Contracting out > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part I: The Turn to Nonprofits
  • 1. Contracting for Services in the Welfare State
  • 2. Nonprofit Organizations and Community
  • Part II: The Contracting Regime
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 3. The Political Economy of Nonprofit Revenues
  • 4. Guardians of Community and Issues of Governance
  • 5. Service Providers for the Welfare State
  • 6. Services and Clients under Contracting
  • 7. Dilemmas of Management in Nonprofit
  • Part III: Implications for the Welfare State
  • 8. The New Politics of the Contracting Regime
  • 9. Privatization in Human Services: A Critique
  • 10. Government, Nonprofit Agencies, and the Welfare State
  • Tables
  • Notes
  • Index

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