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Nonprofit Sector
Overview -> Public Policy
Nonprofits
for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting
Steven Rathgeb Smith and Michael Lipsky (Harvard University
Press, 1993)
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.
Softcover, 312 pages, $17.50
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