The contract culture in public services : studies from Britain, Europe, and the USA /

The contract culture in public services : studies from Britain, Europe, and the USA /

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Imprint:	Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Arena, c1997.
Description:	xii, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Contracting out. Contracting out -- Great Britain. Contracting out -- Europe. Contracting out -- United States. Contracting out. Europe. Great Britain. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2752926

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Other authors / contributors:	6, Perri, 1960- Kendall, Jeremy.
ISBN:	1857422872
Notes:	Revised versions of presentations given at the conference "Contracting--Selling or Shrinking?," hosted in July 1993 by the then Policy Analysis and Research team at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and the Charity Finance team in the Business School at South Bank University. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-212) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Defining contracting
Contracting: what does it do to voluntary and non-profit organizations?
Managing voluntary organizations in the contract culture: continuity or change?
Expansion or withdrawal? The implications of contracting for volunteering
Voluntary management committees: the impact of contracting in the UK
Contracting and the changing politics of need in the USA
Transaction costs in social service contracting: lessons from the USA
The contract culture in Italy
Local welfare contracting: Ravenna in the 1980s and 1990s
Contracting and institutional choice in Austria
Competition in contracted markets
The new politics of welfare contracting
References
Index