1st Edition

Co-production The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services

Edited By Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen Copyright 2008
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

Public management research has in recent years paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services. Evidence of this is the rising number of publications on the topic, as well as a growing number of sessions and papers on the topic in academic conferences of the EGPA and IRSPM. However, much of the discussion on its role is motivated at least... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Co-Production in European Childcare  3. Co-Production in Canadian Childcare  4. Co-Management in Public Service Provision: The Organizational Effects  5. Network Governance and the For-Profit/Nonprofit Divide: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Organizational Fields in Domiciliary Eldercare  6. The Emergence of Local Nonprofit-Government Partnerships and the Role of Intermediary Organizations in Japan  7. A Comparative Analysis of the Different Forms of Financing Collective Childcare Services in Eight European Countries  8. Co-Production Reconsidered: Nostalgia or the Wave of the Future?

Biography

Pestoff, Victor; Brandsen, Taco