Ralph M Kramer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph M Kramer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kramer |
| SIGNATURE | KRAMER R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Privatization in Four European Countries
This book has a dual focus: on how four countries use voluntary non-profit organizations to provide services to the physically, mentally, and sensorially handicapped; and on the changing role of the voluntary, or "third," sector in welfare states. At the same time, it is also a comparative study of privatization in the special sense of using nongovernmental organizations to implement public policy. Most comparative studies of the welfare state ha…
A Third Sector in the Third Millennium
Three trends since the 1960s underscore the need for different ways of conceptualizing the new mixed economy in the human services. First, there has been an enormous increase in the number and types of nonprofit organizations, and greater dependence on governmental revenue. Second, extensive growth in privatization and commercialization in the human services. Third, this culminated in the convergence and blurring of sectoral boundaries. Numerous …
Voluntary Agencies and the Contract Culture
This analysis of recent research on purchase of service contracting (POSC) is prompted by the emergence of POSC as the primary method for the delivery of the personal social services in the United States. The publication of five books on contracting since 1987 and other empirical studies provide a basis for examining what has been learned about POSC. After a discussion of the policy context of the contract state and the three major research parad…
Exploring the Nonprofit Motive (Or
The Welfare State in Israel
Though a latecomer to the ranks of social democratic welfare states, Israel developed a modern system of social security in the span of three decades. The authors examine the key policy issues common to all social security systems, while analyzing the distinctive Israeli process of policymaking in each case. They look specifically, for example, at the role played in the development of social security policy by ideology, politics, public opinion, …
Between States and Markets
Most social commentators and politicians have espoused the Tocquevillian conviction that voluntary efforts contribute vitally to the health of American society, making up a third sector between states and markets. The essays gathered here analyze the voluntary sector in the United States and other advanced industrial societies to discover whether the role of voluntary associations is distinctly American or similar in other places. The contributor…
Change and continuity in British voluntary organisations, 1976 to 1988
A cohort of twenty British national voluntary agencies serving handicapped people was studied in 1976 and again in 1989 after a decade of major shifts in public policy. Changes and continuities were identified in income, structure, governance, management, programme, interorganisation relations and advocacy. A consistent pattern of growth, bureaucratisation and professionalisation was found, with relatively little change in the dominant mode of fi…
Contracting for Social Services
A new interorganizational environment has emerged as nongovernmental organizations have increasingly been used to implement public policy in the social services. As yet, there is a paucity of appropriate concepts, models, and data to describe the organizational consequences of separating governmental funding from service delivery as found in purchase of service contracting. Drawing mainly on three recent studies of contracting in the San Francisc…
Readings in community organization practice
Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State
Disability and Rehabilitation Policy
Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State
Public Fiscal Policy and Voluntary Agencies in Welfare States
While welfare states continue to rely on nongovernmental organizations to implement public policy, there is little research that can contribute to a theory of voluntary provision in democratic societies with comprehensive systems of social services. Selected findings are reported from comparative analysis of eighty voluntary agencies serving the physically and mentally handicapped in England, the Netherlands, Israel, and the United States. Nation…
Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State
While pioneering has long been assumed to be the unique function of voluntary agencies, the flow of private invention to public adoption has rarely been studied empirically. Drawing on an exploratory study of twenty national agencies serving the physically and mentally handicapped, this article re-evaluates the vanguard role of the voluntary agency. Much of what has been regarded as 'innovative' consisted of small-scale, non-controversial, increm…
Social Change and Human Purpose
Alternative Futures for Voluntary Agencies in Social Welfare
Ideology, Programme and Organizational Factors in Public Assistance
While ideology may not explain differences in welfare policy on an international comparative basis, it can help account for the process of policy development in a particular country. In Israel, ideology was very significant in the historical development of public assistance by its influence on social security policy choices concerning the removal of certain groups from the residual programme of public assistance. Indirectly, ideology also shaped …
The Organizational Character of the Voluntary Service Agency in Israel
As the first phase of an international comparative analysis of voluntary service agencies (VSAs), this exploratory study of fifteen Israeli VSAs in the field of the physically and mentally handicapped examines the major environmental and structural factors affecting three functions usually ascribed to VSAs: innovation, social change, and voluntary citizen participation. The various patterns of VSA role performance can be explained by the sociopol…
Future of the voluntary service organization
Changes in relationships between the government and voluntary agencies as well as the organizational milieu will shape the future of voluntary service organizations in the United States. The author predicts the probable development of four different types of organizations that have emerged in the last decade
Community Organizers and Social Planners
Voluntary Agencies and the Use of Public Funds
Dynamics of Teamwork in the Agency, Community, and Neighborhood
Journal Article Dynamics of Teamwork in the Agency, Community, and Neighborhood Get access Ralph M. Kramer Ralph M. Kramer Executive director Richmond-El Cerrito Community Chest and the West Contra Costa Community Welfare Council Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 1, Issue 3, July 1956, Pages 56–62, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/1.3.56 Published: 01 July 1956
Psychology for the Returning Serviceman . Committee of the National Research Council Irvin L. Child , Marjorie Van De Water
Voluntary Agencies and the Contract Culture
This analysis of recent research on purchase of service contracting (POSC) is prompted by the emergence of POSC as the primary method for the delivery of the personal social services in the United States. The publication of five books on contracting since 1987 and other empirical studies provide a basis for examining what has been learned about POSC. After a discussion of the policy context of the contract state and the three major research parad…
Contracting for Social Services
A new interorganizational environment has emerged as nongovernmental organizations have increasingly been used to implement public policy in the social services. As yet, there is a paucity of appropriate concepts, models, and data to describe the organizational consequences of separating governmental funding from service delivery as found in purchase of service contracting. Drawing mainly on three recent studies of contracting in the San Francisc…
Readings in community organization practice
A Third Sector in the Third Millennium
Three trends since the 1960s underscore the need for different ways of conceptualizing the new mixed economy in the human services. First, there has been an enormous increase in the number and types of nonprofit organizations, and greater dependence on governmental revenue. Second, extensive growth in privatization and commercialization in the human services. Third, this culminated in the convergence and blurring of sectoral boundaries. Numerous …
Disability and Rehabilitation Policy
Voluntary Agencies and the Use of Public Funds
Exploring the Nonprofit Motive (Or
Change and continuity in British voluntary organisations, 1976 to 1988
A cohort of twenty British national voluntary agencies serving handicapped people was studied in 1976 and again in 1989 after a decade of major shifts in public policy. Changes and continuities were identified in income, structure, governance, management, programme, interorganisation relations and advocacy. A consistent pattern of growth, bureaucratisation and professionalisation was found, with relatively little change in the dominant mode of fi…
Public Fiscal Policy and Voluntary Agencies in Welfare States
While welfare states continue to rely on nongovernmental organizations to implement public policy, there is little research that can contribute to a theory of voluntary provision in democratic societies with comprehensive systems of social services. Selected findings are reported from comparative analysis of eighty voluntary agencies serving the physically and mentally handicapped in England, the Netherlands, Israel, and the United States. Nation…
Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State
While pioneering has long been assumed to be the unique function of voluntary agencies, the flow of private invention to public adoption has rarely been studied empirically. Drawing on an exploratory study of twenty national agencies serving the physically and mentally handicapped, this article re-evaluates the vanguard role of the voluntary agency. Much of what has been regarded as 'innovative' consisted of small-scale, non-controversial, increm…
Ideology, Programme and Organizational Factors in Public Assistance
While ideology may not explain differences in welfare policy on an international comparative basis, it can help account for the process of policy development in a particular country. In Israel, ideology was very significant in the historical development of public assistance by its influence on social security policy choices concerning the removal of certain groups from the residual programme of public assistance. Indirectly, ideology also shaped …
The Organizational Character of the Voluntary Service Agency in Israel
As the first phase of an international comparative analysis of voluntary service agencies (VSAs), this exploratory study of fifteen Israeli VSAs in the field of the physically and mentally handicapped examines the major environmental and structural factors affecting three functions usually ascribed to VSAs: innovation, social change, and voluntary citizen participation. The various patterns of VSA role performance can be explained by the sociopol…
Dynamics of Teamwork in the Agency, Community, and Neighborhood
Journal Article Dynamics of Teamwork in the Agency, Community, and Neighborhood Get access Ralph M. Kramer Ralph M. Kramer Executive director Richmond-El Cerrito Community Chest and the West Contra Costa Community Welfare Council Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 1, Issue 3, July 1956, Pages 56–62, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/1.3.56 Published: 01 July 1956
Psychology for the Returning Serviceman . Committee of the National Research Council Irvin L. Child , Marjorie Van De Water
Dynamics of Teamwork in the Agency, Community, and Neighborhood
Journal Article Dynamics of Teamwork in the Agency, Community, and Neighborhood Get access Ralph M. Kramer Ralph M. Kramer Executive director Richmond-El Cerrito Community Chest and the West Contra Costa Community Welfare Council Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 1, Issue 3, July 1956, Pages 56–62, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/1.3.56 Published: 01 July 1956
Voluntary Agencies and the Use of Public Funds
Community Organizers and Social Planners
Future of the voluntary service organization
Changes in relationships between the government and voluntary agencies as well as the organizational milieu will shape the future of voluntary service organizations in the United States. The author predicts the probable development of four different types of organizations that have emerged in the last decade
The Organizational Character of the Voluntary Service Agency in Israel
As the first phase of an international comparative analysis of voluntary service agencies (VSAs), this exploratory study of fifteen Israeli VSAs in the field of the physically and mentally handicapped examines the major environmental and structural factors affecting three functions usually ascribed to VSAs: innovation, social change, and voluntary citizen participation. The various patterns of VSA role performance can be explained by the sociopol…
Ideology, Programme and Organizational Factors in Public Assistance
While ideology may not explain differences in welfare policy on an international comparative basis, it can help account for the process of policy development in a particular country. In Israel, ideology was very significant in the historical development of public assistance by its influence on social security policy choices concerning the removal of certain groups from the residual programme of public assistance. Indirectly, ideology also shaped …
Alternative Futures for Voluntary Agencies in Social Welfare
Social Change and Human Purpose
Public Fiscal Policy and Voluntary Agencies in Welfare States
While welfare states continue to rely on nongovernmental organizations to implement public policy, there is little research that can contribute to a theory of voluntary provision in democratic societies with comprehensive systems of social services. Selected findings are reported from comparative analysis of eighty voluntary agencies serving the physically and mentally handicapped in England, the Netherlands, Israel, and the United States. Nation…
Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State
While pioneering has long been assumed to be the unique function of voluntary agencies, the flow of private invention to public adoption has rarely been studied empirically. Drawing on an exploratory study of twenty national agencies serving the physically and mentally handicapped, this article re-evaluates the vanguard role of the voluntary agency. Much of what has been regarded as 'innovative' consisted of small-scale, non-controversial, increm…
Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State
Disability and Rehabilitation Policy
Readings in community organization practice
Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State
Contracting for Social Services
A new interorganizational environment has emerged as nongovernmental organizations have increasingly been used to implement public policy in the social services. As yet, there is a paucity of appropriate concepts, models, and data to describe the organizational consequences of separating governmental funding from service delivery as found in purchase of service contracting. Drawing mainly on three recent studies of contracting in the San Francisc…
Change and continuity in British voluntary organisations, 1976 to 1988
A cohort of twenty British national voluntary agencies serving handicapped people was studied in 1976 and again in 1989 after a decade of major shifts in public policy. Changes and continuities were identified in income, structure, governance, management, programme, interorganisation relations and advocacy. A consistent pattern of growth, bureaucratisation and professionalisation was found, with relatively little change in the dominant mode of fi…
Between States and Markets
Most social commentators and politicians have espoused the Tocquevillian conviction that voluntary efforts contribute vitally to the health of American society, making up a third sector between states and markets. The essays gathered here analyze the voluntary sector in the United States and other advanced industrial societies to discover whether the role of voluntary associations is distinctly American or similar in other places. The contributor…
The Welfare State in Israel
Though a latecomer to the ranks of social democratic welfare states, Israel developed a modern system of social security in the span of three decades. The authors examine the key policy issues common to all social security systems, while analyzing the distinctive Israeli process of policymaking in each case. They look specifically, for example, at the role played in the development of social security policy by ideology, politics, public opinion, …
Voluntary Agencies and the Contract Culture
This analysis of recent research on purchase of service contracting (POSC) is prompted by the emergence of POSC as the primary method for the delivery of the personal social services in the United States. The publication of five books on contracting since 1987 and other empirical studies provide a basis for examining what has been learned about POSC. After a discussion of the policy context of the contract state and the three major research parad…
Exploring the Nonprofit Motive (Or
A Third Sector in the Third Millennium
Three trends since the 1960s underscore the need for different ways of conceptualizing the new mixed economy in the human services. First, there has been an enormous increase in the number and types of nonprofit organizations, and greater dependence on governmental revenue. Second, extensive growth in privatization and commercialization in the human services. Third, this culminated in the convergence and blurring of sectoral boundaries. Numerous …
Privatization in Four European Countries
This book has a dual focus: on how four countries use voluntary non-profit organizations to provide services to the physically, mentally, and sensorially handicapped; and on the changing role of the voluntary, or "third," sector in welfare states. At the same time, it is also a comparative study of privatization in the special sense of using nongovernmental organizations to implement public policy. Most comparative studies of the welfare state ha…
Political science (21 works) · Business (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Public Administration (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (9 works) · Turnover (9 works)