This overview article for the Symposium on Government–Nonprofit Relations in Comparative
Perspective summarizes our current understanding of government–nonprofit relations …

The welfare state faces various challenges in Scandinavia and many European countries
today, including a poor work environment in the public sector, a growing democracy deficit …

Using data derived from and initial case of state contracting for social services for the elderly,
this article builds, a theoretical model to explain variations in the effectiveness of the …

The issue is especially relevant at a time when many countries in Europe have been
searching for new ways in which to include the third sector in the provision and governance …

Este artículo, que debe concebirse como la segunda parte de otro trabajo publicado por el
mismo autor en la revista CIRIEC-España en 1997 (en su nº 25), analiza la economía social …

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 …

Winner of the 2010 Japan NPO Research Association Book Award The global discourse on
civil society is both complicated and enriched in this participant study of Japan's volunteers …

In line with the current global trend of streamlining the role of the state, the governments in
most countries have transferred some of their economic activities and basic services to non …

Whether a function should be performed within or outside government is a very broad issue
that relates to personal values and views concerning the relationship between individual …

This article analyses the Fair Trade sector as a “mixed-form market,” ie, a market in which
different types of players (in this case, nonprofit, co-operative and for-profit organizations) …