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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Steven Rathgeb, 1951-
Otros Autores: Lipsky, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
Temas:
Social service > Contracting out > United States.
Services sociaux > Impartition > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Social service > Contracting out.
Fürsorge
Beschränkung
Gemeinnützige Organisation
Verzorgingsstaat.
Niet-commerciële organisaties.
Dienstverlening.
Uitbesteding van werk.
United States.
USA.
Welfare services > Policies > Of > Government
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part I: The Turn to Nonprofits
  • 1. Contracting for Services in the Welfare State
  • The Scope of Nonprofit Service Organizations
  • Issues for the Welfare State
  • 2. Nonprofit Organizations and Community
  • Nonprofits as Manifestations of Community
  • Community and the Theory of Nonprofit Organizations
  • Toward a Political Explanation of Nonprofit Organizations
  • Three Types of Nonprofit Service Agencies
  • Part II: The Contracting Regime
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 3. The Political Economy of Nonprofit Revenues
  • Historical BackgroundImpact at the Service Delivery Level
  • The Reagan Era and a Changing Federal Role
  • 4. Guardians of Community and Issues of Governance
  • Boards of Directors
  • Executive Directors
  • Boards, Executives, and Community
  • 5. Service Providers for the Welfare State
  • Professionalization
  • Deprofessionalization and Government Funding
  • Volunteers and Organizational Capacity
  • The New Street-Level Bureaucrats
  • 6. Services and Clients under Contracting
  • Imperatives of Public and Nonprofit Service Organizations
  • Significance of Differences between Government and NonprofitsChanges in Practices under Contracting
  • 7. Dilemmas of Management in Nonprofit Organizations
  • Understanding the Nonprofit Organization
  • Cash Flow
  • The Dance of Contract Renewal
  • The Question of Goal Succession
  • Part III: Implications for the Welfare State
  • 8. The New Politics of the Contracting Regime
  • Individual Agencies in the Political Process
  • The Rise of Associations of Nonprofit Providers
  • The Corporatist Politics of the Contracting Regime
  • The Nonprofit Sector under Attack
  • 9. Privatization in Human Services: A CritiqueWhy Does Government Contract with Nonprofit Agencies?
  • Perfmmance Assessment
  • The Irony of Privatization through Contracting
  • 10. Government, Nonprofit Agencies, and the Welfare State
  • Issues of Citizenship
  • Contracting as Symbolic Politics
  • Toward a Balanced Approach to Communal Prouision
  • Tables
  • Notes
  • Index

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