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050		4	_aHV95.S585 1993
100	1		_aSmith, Steven Rathgeb.
245	1	0	_aNonprofits for Hire : _bThe Welfare State in the Age of Contracting.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bHarvard University Press, _c1995.
264		4	_c©1993.
300			_a1 online resource (308 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Part I: The Turn to Nonprofits -- 1. Contracting for Services in the Welfare State -- The Scope of Nonprofit Service Organizations -- Issues for the Welfare State -- 2. Nonprofit Organizations and Community -- Nonprofits as Manifestations of Community -- Community and the Theory of Nonprofit Organizations -- Toward a Political Explanation of Nonprofit Organizations -- Three Types of Nonprofit Service Agencies -- Part II: The Contracting Regime -- Introduction to Part II -- 3. The Political Economy of Nonprofit Revenues -- Historical Background -- Impact at the Service Delivery Level -- The Reagan Era and a Changing Federal Role -- 4. Guardians of Community and Issues of Governance -- Boards of Directors -- Executive Directors -- Boards, Executives, and Community -- 5. Service Providers for the Welfare State -- Professionalization -- Deprofessionalization and Government Funding -- Volunteers and Organizational Capacity -- The New Street-Level Bureaucrats -- 6. Services and Clients under Contracting -- Imperatives of Public and Nonprofit Service Organizations -- Significance of Differences between Government and Nonprofits -- Changes in Practices under Contracting -- 7. Dilemmas of Management in Nonprofit Organizations -- Understanding the Nonprofit Organization -- Cash Flow -- The Dance of Contract Renewal -- The Question of Goal Succession -- Part III: Implications for the Welfare State -- 8. The New Politics of the Contracting Regime -- Individual Agencies in the Political Process -- The Rise of Associations of Nonprofit Providers -- The Corporatist Politics of the Contracting Regime -- The Nonprofit Sector under Attack -- 9. Privatization in Human Services: A Critique -- why Does Government Contract with Nonprofit Agencies ? -- Perfmmance Assessment -- The Irony of Privatization through Contracting.
505	8		_a10. Government, Nonprofit Agencies, and the Welfare State -- Issues of Citizenship -- Contracting as Symbolic Politics -- Toward a Balanced Approach to Communal Prouision -- Tables -- Notes -- Index.
520			_aGiven 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aSocial service-Contracting out-United States.
650		0	_aWelfare state-United States.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aLipsky, Michael.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aSmith, Steven Rathgeb _tNonprofits for Hire _dCambridge : Harvard University Press,c1995 _z9780674626393
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3300277 _zClick to View
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