Welfare State Retrenchment and the Nonprofit Sector

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Bibliographic Data

ID12178458
AuthorsChristopher A Colderley (McGill University, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume11
Issue3
Pages283-312
Publication date1999-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Policy History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0898-0306 • E-ISSN: 1528-4190
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/jph.1999.0003
OpenAlexW1996636437
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

Throughout the 1980s, neoconservative governments—fueled by the conviction that the delivery of goods and services is more efficient when left in the hands of the nongovernmental sector, and that nonprofits are more sensitive to personal and individual needs because they are not bound by “bureaucratic” and “majoritarian” constraints—called upon volunteer activity to substitute for the state in many areas of social policy. This doctrine viewed “the relationship between government and the nonprofit sector in terms that are close to what economists would call a zero-sum game.” Advocates of this position believed that once the welfare state dissipated most social welfare activities would be (re)supplied through the expansion of the third sector. Despite the prominence of these beliefs, the evidence overwhelmingly suggests otherwise

Bureaucracy · Conviction · Doctrine · Economics · Government (linguistics · Market economy · Nonprofit Sector · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Retrenchment · Social policy · Social Welfare · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare state · Finance · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Sciences and Governance

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