Privatization in Four European Countries: Comparative Studies in Government - Third Sector Relationships

by Ralph M. Kramer

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563241323
• ISBN13: 9781563241321
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"