LEADER 05372nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910812740803321 005 20240416150553.0 010 $a0-674-04381-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674043817 035 $a(CKB)1000000000787122 035 $a(EBL)3300277 035 $a(OCoLC)923110310 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000212057 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169081 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212057 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10137217 035 $a(PQKB)11234451 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300277 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314288 035 $a(DE-B1597)574585 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674043817 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300277 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000787122 100 $a19920727d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNonprofits for hire $ethe welfare state in the age of contracting /$fSteven Rathgeb Smith and Michael Lipsky 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1993 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-62638-9 311 $a0-674-62639-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-283) and index. 327 $aPreface; 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 327 $aThe Reagan Era and a Changing Federal Role4. 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 327 $a7. Dilemmas of Management in Nonprofit OrganizationsUnderstanding 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 327 $aThe Irony of Privatization through Contracting10. Government, Nonprofit Agencies, and the Welfare State; Issues of Citizenship; Contracting as Symbolic Politics; Toward a Balanced Approach to Communal Prouision; Tables; Notes; Index 330 $aIn 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.Reviews of this book: "An insightful analysis of the implications of an important, broad trend of the past thirty years in the social welfare policy of the United States and many other countries.[Smith and Lipsky] demonstrate that we do not have to read about other countries to find a comparative perspective that sheds light on the choices we face in our national health care debate." --Bradford H. Gray, Health Affairs "The most comprehensive account we have of the history, extent, nature, and meaning of delivering social services that are paid for by government and delivered through nonprofit organizations." --H. Brinton Milward, Public Administration Review "An interesting, absorbing, and important book." --William T. Gormley, Jr., American Political Science Review "An important contribution to welfare state scholarship." --Kirsten A. Gronbjerg, Contemporary Sociology 606 $aSocial service$xContracting out$zUnited States 606 $aWelfare state$zUnited States 615 0$aSocial service$xContracting out 615 0$aWelfare state 676 $a361.60973 700 $aSmith$b Steven Rathgeb$f1951-$01663601 701 $aLipsky$b Michael$0607318 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812740803321 996 $aNonprofits for hire$94021026 997 $aUNINA