Nonprofits for Hire / / Michael Lipsky, Steven Rathgeb Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Steven Rathgeb,; Lipsky, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)

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 revolutionary changes in the welfare state. Steven Smith and Michael Lipsky demonstrate that this massive shift in funds has benefits and drawbacks. Given the breadth of government funding of nonprofit agencies, this first study of the social, political, and organizational effects of this service strategy is an essential contribution to the current raging debates on the future of the welfare state.Reviews of this book: "An insightful analysis of the implications of an important, broad trend of the past thirty years in the social welfare policy of the United States and many other countries.[Smith and Lipsky] demonstrate that we do not have to read about other countries to find a comparative perspective that sheds light on the choices we face in our national health care debate." --Bradford H. Gray, Health Affairs "The most comprehensive account we have of the history, extent, nature, and meaning of delivering social services that are paid for by government and delivered through nonprofit organizations." --H. Brinton Milward, Public Administration Review "An interesting, absorbing, and important book." --William T. Gormley, Jr., American Political Science Review "An important contribution to welfare state scholarship." --Kirsten A. Gronbjerg, Contemporary Sociology

Table of Contents

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