A conceptual approach to the creation of public–private partnerships in social welfare |
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| Authors: | Richard J. Estes Huiquan Zhou |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), University of Pennsylvania, Narberth, PA, USA;2. Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China |
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| Abstract: | All societies are confronted with complex, often difficult to overcome, challenges associated with changing population demographics. These challenges have placed increasing demands on society for social protection. Individual citizens, politicians, and scholars alike all are searching for the ideal configuration of the welfare mix, that is, a combination of various institutions that can offer the best possible combination of essential goods and services for everyone in every society. Key Practitioner Message: ● The organization of the public–private welfare partnership as viewed from a conceptual perspective; ● The unique contextual and contemporary social forces that shape public–private partnerships in modern welfare state practice; ● Contrasts in the origins and nature of public–private partnerships between two of the world's most populous countries whose histories, traditions, values, and norms differ fundamentally from one another. Even so, considerable learning regarding welfare state formation in different societies is possible through the application of the Public–Private Development Mix to the analysis of welfare state formation in these two contrasting societies. |
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| Keywords: | international comparative social welfare model public– private mix |
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