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Private Action and the Public Good (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,016
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Private Action and the Public Good (Hardcover, New): Walter W. Powell, Elisabeth S. Clemens

Private Action and the Public Good (Hardcover, New)

Walter W. Powell, Elisabeth S. Clemens

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Governments around the world are turning over more of their services to private or charitable organizations, as politicians and pundits celebrate participation in civic activities. But can nonprofits provide more and higher-quality services than governments or for-profit businesses? Will nonprofits really increase social connectedness and civic engagement? This book, a sequel to Walter W. Powell's widely acclaimed The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, brings together an original collection of writings that explore the nature of the "public good" and how private nonprofit organizations relate to it.

The contributors to this book -- eminent sociologists, political scientists, management scholars, historians, and economists -- examine the nonprofit sector through a variety of theoretical and methodological lenses. They consider the tensions between the provision of public goods and the interests of members and donors in nonprofit organizations. They contrast religious and secular nonprofits, as well as private and nonprofit provision of child care, mental health services, and health care. And they explore the growing role of nonprofits in the United States, France, Germany, and Eastern Europe, the contribution of nonprofits to economic development, and the forms and strategies of private action.

"This volume addresses an extremely important topic from an academic standpoint and from a public policy perspective -- how nonprofits might contribute to the collective good, why they often fail, and some of the consequences for the larger society of their pursuit of the public good". -- Joseph Galaskiewicz, University of Minnesota

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 1998
First published: March 1998
Editors: Walter W. Powell • Elisabeth S. Clemens
Dimensions: 279 x 216 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 336
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-06449-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > Charities & voluntary services
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
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LSN: 0-300-06449-7
Barcode: 9780300064490

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