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

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