From their experience in nonprofit operations and their
understanding of the realities of urban politics, the editors of
this wide-ranging volume and their contributors dig into issues
seldom explored in the literature. They study the role of
nonprofits in local governing coalitions, the potential of
nonprofits to replace social welfare programs, their efforts to
restructure key elements of the local political process, and the
unanticipated internal impacts of the changing roles of nonprofit
organizations in the urban community. The result is a compelling
argument that to understand life in contemporary American cities,
we must take into account the expanding role of nonprofit
organizations, their response to increased service demands, and
their participation in common efforts to direct policy choices.
Hula, Jackson-Elmoore, and their panel of scholars, researchers,
and close observers of urban policymaking focus on the delivery of
social services to illustrate the complex and important set of
roles that nonprofits have assumed. As social programs are cut at
all levels of government, it is often believed that nonprofits can
and should take up the slack and restore at least some portion of
the cutbacks in such services. They examine how some nonprofit
organizations have taken a proactive stance in this regard by
implementing efforts that do not simply react to political and
social change, but attempt to initiate and guide it instead. They
attempt to change the political environment in which they operate,
and the result has been to change the face of local politics in
many jurisdictions. Each chapter of their book explores these
expanding and emerging roles. Themes and focuses vary, which in
turn reflects the variation and complexity within the nonprofit
sector itself. At the same time, each chapter presents an emerging
political or policy role now being played by today's nonprofits and
voluntary associations, and a theoretical context in which such
activities and behavior can best be understood. Scholars and
advanced students in public administration, economics, and
nonprofit management, as well as executive-level nonprofit
managers, will find here an important update on what is happening
in their special worlds, and the knowledge they need to make sense
of it.
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