ISBN: 9780300064490

Governments around the world are turning over more of their services to private or charitable organizations, as politicians and pundits celebrate participation in civic activities. But ca… Mehr…

Governments around the world are turning over more of their services to private or charitable organizations, as politicians and pundits celebrate participation in civic activities. But can nonprofits provide more and higher-quality services than governments or for-profit businesses? Will nonprofits really increase social connectedness and civic engagement? This book, a sequel to Walter W. Powell's widely acclaimed The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, brings together an original collection of writings that explores the nature of the "public good" and how private nonprofit organizations relate to it. The contributors to this bookeminent sociologists, political scientists, management scholars, historians, and economistsexamine the nonprofit sector through a variety of theoretical and methodological lenses. They consider the tensions between the provision of public goods and the interests of members and donors in nonprofit organizations. They contrast religious and secular nonprofits, as well as private and nonprofit provision of child care, mental health services, and health care. And they explore the growing role of nonprofits in the United States, France, Germany, and Eastern Europe, the contribution of nonprofits to economic development, and the forms and strategies of private action., Yale University Press, 1998-03, 6<

ISBN: 9780300064490

Yale University Press, 1998-03-30. Hardcover. New. BRAND NEW! In Protective Shrinkwrap! A Glossy Hardcover in NEW, pristine condition. We ship all orders with delivery confirmation!, Ya… Mehr…

Yale University Press, 1998-03-30. Hardcover. New. BRAND NEW! In Protective Shrinkwrap! A Glossy Hardcover in NEW, pristine condition. We ship all orders with delivery confirmation!, Yale University Press, 1998-03-30, 6<