1st Edition
Privatization in Four European Countries Comparative Studies in Government - Third Sector Relationships
By Ralph M. Kramer
Copyright 1993
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book has a dual focus: on how four countries use voluntary non-profit organizations to provide services to the physically, mentally, and sensorially handicapped; and on the changing role of the voluntary, or "third," sector in welfare states. At the same time, it is also a comparative study of privatization in the special sense of using nongovernmental organizations to implement public... Read more
Tables and Figures, Preface, Introduction, Part I: Four National Case Studies, 1 England: Statutory Alternative, 2 Italy: Toward an Unplanned Partnership, 3 The Netherlands: Institutionalized Privatization, 4 Norway: Integrated Dependency, Part II: Comparative Analyses of Third Sector Voluntary Organizations, 5 Cross-National Sectoral Patterns, 6 Organizational Income Trends, 7 Structure, Governance, and Administration, 8 Interorganizational Relations: Collaboration, Competition, and Interdependencies, 9 The Distinctive Character of Voluntary Organizations, Part III: Summary and Conclusions, 10 Implications for Social Policy in the Welfare State, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Ralph M. Kramer, Hakon Lorentzen, Willem B. Melief, Sergio Pasquinelli
