What is included with this book?
The Turn to Nonprofits | |
Contracting for Services in the Welfare State | p. 3 |
The Scope of Nonprofit Service Organizations | p. 5 |
Issues for the Welfare State | p. 11 |
Nonprofit Organizations and Community | p. 20 |
Nonprofits as Manifestations of Community | p. 22 |
Community and the Theory of Nonprofit Organizations | p. 26 |
Toward a Political Explanation of Nonprofit Organizations | p. 31 |
Three Types of Nonprofit Service Agencies | p. 37 |
The Contracting Regime | |
Introduction to Part II | p. 43 |
The Political Economy of Nonprofit Revenues | p. 46 |
Historical Background | p. 47 |
Impact at the Service Delivery Level | p. 57 |
The Reagan Era and a Changing Federal Role | p. 62 |
Guardians of Community and Issues of Governance | p. 72 |
Boards of Directors | p. 73 |
Executive Directors | p. 79 |
Boards, Executives, and Community | p. 88 |
Service Providers for the Welfare State | p. 98 |
Professionalization | p. 100 |
Deprofessionalization and Government Funding | p. 108 |
Volunteers and Organizational Capacity | p. 111 |
The New Street-level Bureaucrats | p. 115 |
Services and Clients under Contracting | p. 120 |
Imperatives of Public and Nonprofit Service Organizations | p. 121 |
Significance of Differences between Government and Nonprofits | p. 127 |
Changes in Practices under Contracting | p. 131 |
Dilemmas of Management in Nonprofit Organizations | p. 147 |
Understanding the Nonprofit Organization | p. 148 |
Cash Flow | p. 151 |
The Dance of Contract Renewal | p. 157 |
The Question of Goal Succession | p. 163 |
Implications for the Welfare State | |
The New Politics of the Contracting Regime | p. 171 |
Individual Agencies in the Political Process | p. 173 |
The Rise of Associations of Nonprofit Providers | p. 177 |
The Corporatist Politics of the Contracting Regime | p. 179 |
The Nonprofit Sector under Attack | p. 182 |
Privatization in Human Services: A Critique | p. 188 |
Why Does Government Contract with Nonprofit Agencies? | p. 191 |
Performance Assessment | p. 199 |
The Irony of Privatization through Contracting | p. 203 |
Government, Nonprofit Agencies, and the Welfare State | p. 206 |
Issues of Citizenship | p. 207 |
Contracting as Symbolic Politics | p. 211 |
Toward a Balanced Approach to Communal Provision | p. 215 |
Tables | p. 233 |
Notes | p. 245 |
Index | p. 285 |
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