The welfare state's other crisis

While most observers have equated privatization with a conservative assault on the welfare state, Claire F. Ullman demonstrates that such was not the case in France. There, delegation to nonprofits was motivated by the desire to increase the state's ability to achieve progressive social goals, including enabling welfare programs to reach more of the disadvantaged. Elites sought to recruit nonprofit organizations as partners not to roll back the state, but to bolster and extend its power. Ullman suggests that the western welfare state's new reliance on nonprofit organizations should be re-evaluated in light of the French case.

First sentence: In the advanced industrial welfare states, the makers of public policy increasingly favor delegating responsibility for the provision of social services to nonprofit organizations.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Editions

1

Pages

193

ISBN

9780253335449

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