Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting / Edition 1

by Steven Rathgeb Smith, Michael Lipsky

Overview

In recent years, government’s primary response to the emergent problems of homelessness, hunger, child abuse, health care, and AIDS has been generated through nonprofit agencies funded by taxpayer money. As part of the widespread movement for privatization, these agencies represent revolutionary changes in the welfare state. Steven Smith and Michael Lipsky demonstrate that this massive shift in funds has benefits and drawbacks. Given the breadth of government funding of nonprofit agencies, this first study of the social, political, and organizational effects of this service strategy is an essential contribution to the current raging debates on the future of the welfare state.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674626393
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	03/19/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Steven Rathgeb Smith is Executive Director of the American Political Science Association.

Michael Lipsky is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and author of Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services.

Editorial Reviews

An insightful analysis of the implications of an important, broad trend of the past thirty years in the social welfare policy of the United States and many other countries… [Smith and Lipsky] demonstrate that we do not have to read about other countries to find a comparative perspective that sheds light on the choices we face in our national health care debate.

Health Affairs - Bradford H. Gray

An important contribution to welfare state scholarship.

Contemporary Sociology - Kirsten A. Gronbjerg

The most comprehensive account we have of the history, extent, nature, and meaning of delivering social services that are paid for by government and delivered through nonprofit organizations.

Public Administration Review - H. Brinton Milward

An interesting, absorbing, and important book.

William T. Gormleyn Political Science Review

An interesting, absorbing, and important book.

American Political Science Review - William T. Gormley

An insightful analysis of the implications of an important, broad trend of the past thirty years in the social welfare policy of the United States and many other countries...[Smith and Lipsky] demonstrate that we do not have to read about other countries to find a comparative perspective that sheds light on the choices we face in our national health care debate.
— Bradford H. Gray

Health Affairs

The most comprehensive account we have of the history, extent, nature, and meaning of delivering social services that are paid for by government and delivered through nonprofit organizations.
— H. Brinton Milward

Public Administration Review

An interesting, absorbing, and important book.
— William T. Gormley, Jr.

American Political Science Review

An important contribution to welfare state scholarship.
— Kirsten A. Gronbjerg

Contemporary Sociology