Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting
ISBN-10:
0674626389
ISBN-13:
9780674626386
Author(s): Lipsky, Michael; SMITH, STEVEN
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover, 306 pages
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Description:
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.
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