Private Action and the Public Good

Walter W. Powell

ISBN 10: 0300064497 / ISBN 13: 9780300064490

Published by Yale University Press Feb 2001, 2001

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Neuware - 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 explores 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Private Action and the Public Good
• Publisher: Yale University Press Feb 2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300064497
• ISBN 13: 9780300064490
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 286W x 223H x 29D millimeters 286 millimeters width by 223 millimeters height by 29 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1057 grams

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Synopsis

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 explores 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.

About the Author

Walter W. Powell is professor of sociology at the University of Arizona. Elisabeth S. Clemens is associate professor of sociology at the University of Arizona.