The State And The Voluntary Sector

Author : Rachel Laforest
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774821445

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Voluntary Sector Organizations and the State by Rachel Laforest Pdf

In the early 1990s, voluntary organizations garnered little attention in Canadian policy circles, even though the federal government was simultaneously offloading its responsibility for essential services to the sector and cutting back their funding. Two decades later, the voluntary sector is a key public policy player in federal, provincial, and municipal politics. Rachel Laforest tells the story of how and why the federal government’s relationship with voluntary organizations changed at the end of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews and insights from governance theory, social movement theory, and urban studies, she shows why the turnaround represented a significant shift in the way citizens and policy makers view the place of voluntary organizations in public policy. Members of voluntary organizations have struggled for a stronger voice in policy making and redefined their relationship to the federal government through key collaborations such as the Voluntary Sector Initiative and the National Children’s Initiative. This deft account of how a loose coalition of voluntary organizations was transformed into a distinct sector offers a new conceptual framework for explaining dynamic state - voluntary sector relations at all levels of government.

Author : Rodney Hedley,Colin Rochester,Justin Davis Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134858101

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Introduction to the Voluntary Sector by Rodney Hedley,Colin Rochester,Justin Davis Smith Pdf

Overview of the voluntary sector: its history, importance and current responsibilities. Practical guidance and analysis of issues facing voluntary sector including its legal framework in UK and EU, fundraising, management and accountability.

Author : Jennifer R. Wolch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018513955

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The Shadow State by Jennifer R. Wolch Pdf

Author : Jane E. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034411226

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The Voluntary Sector, the State, and Social Work in Britain by Jane E. Lewis Pdf

This text offers a perspective on welfare politics in Britain which shows that Britain has always had a mixed economy of welfare with the voluntary sector playing a major role. It traces the ideas of the Charity Organisation Society, which became the Family Welfare Association in 1946.

Author : Jeremy Kendall,Martin Knapp
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Charities
ISBN : 0719050383

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The Voluntary Sector in the United Kingdom by Jeremy Kendall,Martin Knapp Pdf

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and c.1500. Concentrating on the general principles of classical rhetoric central to the language of this writing, alongside the more familiar traditions of ancient history, biblical exegesis and patristic theology, this survey introduces the conceptual sophistication and semantic rigour with which medieval authors could approach their narratives of past and present events, and the diversity of ends to which this history could then be put. By providing a close reading of some of the historians who put these linguistic principles and strategies into practice (from Augustine and Orosius through Otto of Freising and William of Malmesbury to Machiavelli and Guicciardini), it traces and questions some of the key methodological changes that characterise the function and purpose of the western historiographical tradition in this formative period of its development.

Author : Alison Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 1474200400

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The Voluntary Sector, the State and the Law by Alison Dunn Pdf

The essays in this collection draw out the tensions between the voluntary sector, the state and the law, and highlight the many areas where relationships between the principal actors are uneasy. The book addresses the issues of governance, openness, accountability and regulation.

Author : Jenny Clark,National Council for Voluntary Organisations (Great Britain),Joy Dobbs,David Kane,Wilding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 0719917905

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The State and the Voluntary Sector by Jenny Clark,National Council for Voluntary Organisations (Great Britain),Joy Dobbs,David Kane,Wilding Pdf

The State and the Voluntary Sector is ideal for anyone who wants to quickly and clearly understand the statutory funding environment. The voluntary sector in modern Britain is a major force for social and economic change. With an expenditure of over £33 billion and a paid workforce of 634,000, the voluntary sector is also a key player in the modernisation and delivery of public services. This is in no small part due to a significant expansion in the scale and scope of collaboration with government over the last decade, an expansion underpinned by statutory funding. At a time when public expenditure is under pressure, policy-makers and voluntary sector leaders need the latest intelligence on the statutory funding relationship. The State and the Voluntary Sector provides a unique, easy-to-understand analysis of the funding relationship between the two sectors. It is an indispensible guide for policy-makers and voluntary sector leaders and anyone interested in the sector.

Author : Margaret Harris,Colin Rochester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350318113

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Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain by Margaret Harris,Colin Rochester Pdf

The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. From Margaret Thatcher's radical reassessment of the role of the state to Tony Blair's 'Third Way', the voluntary sector has been at the heart of these changes. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, voluntary organisations have been cast in leading roles on the social policy stage. They are expected to make key contributions to countering social exclusion; to regenerating communities; to providing social housing and welfare services; to promoting international aid and development; and to developing and sustaining democratic participation and the active community. But how are voluntary sector organisations grappling with the implications of their new, expanded role? How is their relationship with the state changing in practice? This book, which has its origins in an international conference of leading academics in the field, provides answers to these pressing questions. It analyses the numerous and complex ways in which the formulation and implementation of social policy is dependent on the contributions of the voluntary sector. It discusses the impact of the new policy environment on voluntary organisations. And it suggests that the successful implementation of social policy requires government to acknowledge and nurture the distinctive features and contributions of voluntary sector organisations. Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain is essential reading not only for the many people studying, working in or working with the voluntary sector in Britain but also for anyone who is interested in the formulation and implementation of social policy.

Author : Ian Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134090754

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Employment Relations in the Voluntary Sector by Ian Cunningham Pdf

This new book addresses the topical issues surrounding employment relations in UK voluntary organizations that operate within the quasi-market of social care. Combining an analysis of the established literature with in-depth qualitative field work, Ian Cunningham explores the nature of power relations between state and voluntary sector; implications of employment policy and subsequent pressures for change in pay and working conditions; the influence of trade unions in the sector; management’s capacity to resist external pressure and employee responses to this environment. Cunningham’s focus on the employment relationship in this sector is unique, highlighting a complex and variable pattern of interdependence and subordination between government agencies and voluntary sector employers. The author examines the way in which financial pressures from the state coupled with weak unionization diminish working conditions, arguing that employee morale will not be sustained if the voluntary sector fails to maintain its autonomy and minimize its dependency on state funding.

Author : Benjamin Gidron,Ralph M. Kramer,Lester M. Salamon
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015022232741

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Government and the Third Sector by Benjamin Gidron,Ralph M. Kramer,Lester M. Salamon Pdf

In ten chapters written expressly for this book, international experts in economics, political science, sociology, and social welfare examine the position of the third sector vis-a-vis government in European countries and Israel, revealing the growing interdependence of the public and voluntary sectors. The conventional wisdom assumes a basic conflict between the voluntary sector and the state. The authors of this volume show that, far from competing with government, nonprofit organizations provide an alternative set of mechanisms through which to deliver publicly financed services. In many countries, for example, partnerships between local government and voluntary organizations are thriving. The authors put the current debate over the relative roles of government and the nonprofit sector into perspective by examining how the relationship between them has developed; evaluate the possibilities for cooperation between nonprofits and the state in coping with current social needs; assess the extent to which nonprofit organizations can assume new burdens; and explore, in different national settings, the evolving relationship between the nonprofit sector and the state, which has come to be a central issue in the political discourse of our day.

Author : Jane E. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009828497

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The Voluntary Sector, the State, and Social Work in Britain by Jane E. Lewis Pdf

This text offers a perspective on welfare politics in Britain which shows that Britain has always had a mixed economy of welfare with the voluntary sector playing a major role. It traces the ideas of the Charity Organisation Society, which became the Family Welfare Association in 1946.

Author : Rachel Laforest
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774821469

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Voluntary Sector Organizations and the State by Rachel Laforest Pdf

Voluntary organizations have moved from the margins to the centre of policy discussions in Canada, and citizens and politicians now view them in a new way. Rachel Laforest shows how members of voluntary organizations have struggled for a stronger voice in policy making and redefined their relationship to the federal government through key collaborations. This vivid account of how a loose coalition of organizations was transformed into a distinct sector offers a new conceptual framework for explaining dynamic state-voluntary sector relations at all levels of government.

Author : Mark Sidel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134096718

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Regulation of the Voluntary Sector by Mark Sidel Pdf

A critical introduction to and analysis of the legal relationships between the state and voluntary sector, this volume provides the first available comparative analysis of state responses to voluntary sector activity in the wake of September 11th.

Author : Ralph M. Kramer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520309708

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Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State by Ralph M. Kramer Pdf

The rise of the welfare state threatens the autonomy and survival of nonprofit voluntary agencies as providers of social services. Or does it? In this cross-national, empirical study of the workings of voluntary agencies, Ralph M. Kramer cuts through the conceptual confusion surrounding voluntarism and the boundaries between the public and private sectors. He draws on a survey of voluntary agencies helping disabled people in four welfare democracies (the United States, England, Israel, and the Netherlands) to explain the virtues and flaws of different patterns of government-voluntary relationships in coping with the growing demand for human services. Kramer concludes that many of the most cherished beliefs about the voluntary sector have little basis in fact. The most innovative agencies, for example, are not the smallest, but rather among the largest, most bureaucratized, and most professionalized. Government funding does not necessarily constrain agency autonomy. And giving voluntary agencies the primary responsibility for social services can reduce, not increase, citizen participation. This comparative analysis of the distinctive competence, vulnerability, and potential of the voluntary agency should replace some of the myths that guide public policy and the day-to-day activities of social service agencies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Author : Ian Cunningham,Philip James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136814242

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Voluntary Organizations and Public Service Delivery by Ian Cunningham,Philip James Pdf

Voluntary Organizations and Public Sector Delivery examines how aspects of voluntary sector employment are affected by its engagement with the growing trend to the market-based outsourcing in the delivery of public services within industrialized countries. The volume draws together a team of well-recognized academic contributors from the UK, Canada, Australia and the United States to explore how the process of outsourcing is impacting the internal and external labor markets of voluntary organizations, and the implications for the policy objectives underlying the externalization of the delivery of public services to them. These themes of change in employment are covered in depth in the UK with dedicated chapters exploring, workforce patterns and skill needs, HR policies and practices, recruitment and selection, graduate recruitment, unionization, pay and conditions and psychological contracts in organizations. The book also contains a significant international comparative dimension with individual chapter analysis of employment issues in Australia, Canada and the United States, as well as an Anglo-German comparison.