The Third Sector in Europe: Prospects and challenges

by P.; ROSBO027ROSBO009 Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780415423397
• ISBN10: 0415423392
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The role of the Third Sector within European society is an extremely topical subject, as both governments and the EU continue to consider the role these organizations can play in providing essential public services. This book presents contemporary research into this emerging area, exploring the contribution of this important sector to European society as well as the key challenges that the sector and its components organizations face in making this contribution. This volume brings together for the first time a range of challenging perspectives upon the role and import of the Third Sector for European society from a variety of disciplines ? including economics, sociology, political science, management and public policy. Areas covered include the Third Sector civil society and democracy, relationships with government, its impact on social and public policy, the growth of social enterprise and of hybrid organizations as key elements of the sector and the future challenges for the sector inEurope.

Table of Contents

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Notes on contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Key issues for the third sector in Europe	p. 3
Civil society, social capital and democracy	p. 7
The third sector and civil society	p. 9
Where does social capital come from?	p. 26
The rise of Romanian NGOs in the democratization process of the society after 1990	p. 53
The third sector and public policy	p. 67
Welfare architecture and voluntarism. Or why 'changing the welfare mix' means different things in different contexts	p. 69
The third sector and the social inclusion agenda: the role of social enterprises in the field of work integration	p. 87
Delivering public services	p. 103
The third sector and the delivery of public services: an evaluation of different meta-theoretical perspectives	p. 105
The third sector and the provision of public services in Slovakia	p. 118
The innovative capacity of voluntary and community organizations: exploring the organizational and environmental contingencies	p. 134
Co-production	p. 157
Co-production, the third sector and functional representation in Sweden	p. 159
Co-governance and co-production: from the social enterprise towards the public-private co-enterprise	p. 183
Third sector-governmental relationships	p. 209
The evolving state - third sector relations in Turkey	p. 211
The uneasy partnership of the state and the third sector in the Czech Republic	p. 230
Institutionalising relationships between government and the Third Sector: the case of the Estonian "Compact"	p. 256
The rise of hybrid organizations	p. 277
Hybrid organisations. Background, concepts, challenges	p. 279
Teachers and middle managers in a hybrid educational sector	p. 293
Social enterprise	p. 307
The role of social enterprises in Europe: a core element or a distraction in the provision of public services?	p. 309
Social co-operatives for persons with mental health problems in Greece: a specific form of social enterprise	p. 327
Conclusions	p. 339
The economic analysis of non-profit organisations' management	p. 341
Conclusions: The state of our knowledge and future challenges	p. 357
Index	p. 371
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