Nonprofits for Hire

副标题: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting

ISBN: 9780674626393

出版社: Harvard University Press

出版年: 1995-3-19

页数: 306

定价: USD 46.50

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.