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Stephen Elstub 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2006,17(1):17-39
In western capitalist societies the state has become increasingly criticized for its inadequacy as a mechanism for distributing welfare inclusively. In particular, it has been criticized for its lack of flexibility in meeting the needs of increasingly plural populations, and for being too distant to enable service users to participate in the meeting of their welfare needs. Consequently, in many countries, including the United Kingdom, voluntary and community associations have been used to distribute welfare with the belief that it can remedy the defects of universal state provision. This paper suggests the voluntary and community sector can only achieve this if the organizations are democratically organized, ensuring participation from staff and users. Moreover, participation should be based around the norms of deliberative democracy. The paper argues that this form of participation will best ensure that the needs, preferences, and interests of subordinate groups are included in social policy delivery, due to the fostering of public reason.
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Stephen ElstubEmail: |
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Greg Halseth Laura Marie Ryser 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2007,18(3):241-265
Service restructuring trends since the 1980s have resulted in the downsizing or closure of many services in rural and small
town Canada. In response, voluntary groups have been filling some of the emerging service gaps. Services, however, often are
directed at complex problems that demand information, support, or assistance from a range of sources and institutions. For
voluntary groups, this underscores a need to partner with other groups, organizations, or service providers. At the same time,
voluntary organizations are increasingly encouraged to develop partnerships with public or private partners in order to qualify
for government funding. This study tracks 29 voluntary organizations in four rural and small town places across Canada to
explore the development and maintenance of partnerships (both local and non-local), as well as the types of networks, resources,
and expertise for which partnerships were used. The findings indicate that while voluntary organizations feel that local partnerships
are more important, partnerships with groups outside of these places are equally developed. Partnerships were used to expand
networks, obtain expertise, and access a range of resources to assist in daily operations and delivery of services. The increase
in partnerships with groups outside of these communities, particularly with non-local service providers, will have important
implications for voluntary organizations and policy makers.
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Periklis Polyzoidis 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(2):188-206
The majority of Greek nonprofit organizations active in the field of human services belong in two categories: the first is
homes for the elderly that provide assisted living to seniors and the second is philanthropic societies, which primarily fight
against poverty. This paper argues that this sector is small in terms of membership, voluntary performance, beneficiaries,
and budget. Nonprofit organizations have succeeded in developing close relationships with local communities, as well as in
providing essential alleviation quickly and flexibly. On the other hand, organizations are very dependent on the state and
they keep beneficiaries away from decision making; moreover, their contribution to building social capital is trivial and
participation in policy-making minimal. The lack of collective representation prevents an open society and hinders communication
with government.
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Emily Barman 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2007,18(2):101-115
Over the last two decades, nonprofit organizations in the United Kingdom (UK) have faced increased pressure to measure their
activities in order to demonstrate their competency, to achieve legitimacy, and to obtain funding. This paper draws from recent
literature in the sociology of science to examine quantification in the British voluntary sector as a historically situated
and socially constructed process. Using archival and secondary documents, I find that quantification is not a new practice
for charities in the UK; moreover, while they have employed metrication in the past, what activities nonprofits have measured,
and the importance of measurement for their organizational success, has altered over the course of the century.
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Emily BarmanEmail: |
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Ciara O’Dwyer Virpi Timonen 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(1):35-49
Meals-on-wheels services in Ireland and elsewhere rely heavily on volunteers to operate. Meals-on-wheels services that draw
extensively on volunteers’ contributions both benefit from and augment social capital within communities. Based on interviews
with voluntary and paid meals-on-wheels coordinators and staff carried out in early 2007, this article examines: (1) the recruitment
and retention of volunteers; (2) motivations for volunteering; (3) the nature of the contributions of volunteers; and, (4)
the future role of volunteering within the service. The article argues that volunteerism in meals provision for older adults
in Ireland is in crisis. The recruitment and retention of volunteers may be improved if service providers gain a better understanding
of the motivations of volunteers and develop strategies to ensure that volunteers have an opportunity to engage in work that
corresponds to their original motivations, which includes enhancing the social capital of their communities.
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Ciara O’DwyerEmail: |
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Jean Proulx Denis Bourque Sébastien Savard 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2007,18(3):293-307
In this paper, the authors analyze different forms of interface between the government and third sector organizations in Québec.
In order to do so, they studied relationships in eight different fields of activity: homeless youth services, housing for
intellectually deficient people, support organizations for natural caregivers, community leisure centers, community housing
for the elderly, daycare centers, social economy organizations for domestic assistance, and services specializing in employment
for handicapped people. Following a review of international literature on the relationship between the government and the
third sector, the paper analyzes these relationships on the basis of the typology developed by Jennifer M. Coston, which is
adapted to the Québécois context. In the eight activity sectors studied, the authors found the presence of four different
types of interface between the government and the third sector: “subcontracting,” “coexistence,” “supplementarity,” and “co-construction”
relationships.
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Denis BourqueEmail: |
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Gordon D. Cumming 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2008,19(4):372-394
This article asks whether French NGOs have fallen into line with the wider trend towards professionalization that has marked
the Northern nonprofit sector, most notably Anglo-American NGOs, over the last two decades or so. It shows how French NGOs,
particularly those engaged in longer term development work, were characterized by militancy over the early post-colonial decades.
It then demonstrates how, over the global era, the French state has encouraged developmental NGOs (NGDOs) to undertake bureaucratic
forms of professionalization. Next, it looks at how these organizations have, in response, adapted their staffing, structures,
and procedures, whilst stopping short of overly standardized forms of development. Finally, it shows how French NGDOs have,
in eschewing “technical professionalism”, been acting in line with resource dependence theory and responding to the demands
of their critical resource, which is not the French state but the donor public and their grassroots supporters.
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Gordon D. CummingEmail: |
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Pauline P. Cullen 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(2):99-128
In this article social movement theory is used to assess the strategic repertoire of a relatively new sector of nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) advocating for migrants rights in Ireland. Pro-migrant NGOs are majority community-led and face a challenging
political and societal context for mobilization including a restrictive immigration regime, political and media discourse
that racializes migrants, weak public support for the expansion of migrants’ rights, and high rates of discrimination and
social exclusion experienced by migrant communities. A competitive funding environment also inhibits pro-migrant NGOs capacity
to work with emerging migrant-led organizations that simultaneously compete for state and foundation funds. Pro-migrant NGOs
in Ireland have responded with a three levelled strategy, namely alliance building with sympathetic public officials and service
and information provision to state bodies, campaigns contesting negative media and societal framing of migrants, and networking
with transnational NGO coalitions working on immigration issues.
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Pauline P. CullenEmail: |
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Olav Helge Angell 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2008,19(3):296-315
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate and explain how a Norwegian voluntary, faith-based organization—the Gospel Centre
of Norway (Pinsevennenes Evangeliesenter)—successfully substituted a “network” for “market” strategy vis-à-vis the public sector in order to obtain organizational
legitimacy and financial security. During the first decade of its existence it obtained a unique position in its relationship
with the state, as a separate item in the budget of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. The organization operates in
the field of substance abuse rehabilitation, i.e., in a situation where instrumental effectiveness is difficult to assess.
In such a situation ritual or other institutional criteria may replace effectiveness criteria and impression management is
shown to be a successful strategy. Attention is paid to the relevant environmental conditions under which this organizational
change of strategy was successful.
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Olav Helge AngellEmail: |
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This study examines union wage premiums in the public sector for the 1998–2004 period. Unlike previous studies, our approach
estimates union wage premiums considering differences in the rewards to education, experience, and other personal characteristics
for union and non-union workers. The approach provides a larger estimated wage gap than the traditional approach, and allows
for simulations of union–nonunion wage gaps for different types of workers. Moreover, we use an Oaxaca decomposition to explain
the larger union–nonunion wage gap in the private sector in comparison to that in the public sector. We find that between
50% and 60% of the difference in union wage premiums between the private and public sectors is due to differences in the way
unionized workers are rewarded in the private and public sectors, while the remaining portion is due to differences in personal
characteristics of private and public sector workers.
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John D. BitzanEmail: |
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While the relationships between health insurance and the labor supply of women have been explored in the literature, little
is known about the effects of offering public health insurance on the labor supply decisions of married women. This paper
examines how the enactment of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) affected the labor supply decisions of
married women. Our empirical analysis showed that certain groups of married women reduced their number of hours worked upon
SCHIP implementation. The results imply it is possible that some wives decreased their labor supply in order to make their
children eligible for public health insurance.
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Ho Jin LeeEmail: |
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Nonprofit Isomorphism: An Australia–United States Comparison 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Jeffrey Leiter 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2008,19(1):67-91
This paper examines the organizational structures of nonprofit organizations in Australia and the United States. Using random
samples of nonprofits drawn from the two organizational populations, the analysis compares the extent of structural resemblance
or isomorphism in each. It detects similar levels of isomorphism for several structural characteristics. The paper interprets
this finding as reflecting expectations for nonprofit organizations that stretch worldwide.
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Jeffrey LeiterEmail: |
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Mirella Landriscina 《Qualitative sociology》2006,29(4):447-466
Through a case study of a leading service provider organization in Philadelphia, this paper explores the advocacy work of
a publicly funded, professionalized, institutionalized nonprofit organization. In this article I relate how in the spring
of 2002, staff at the organization responded to a recurring political issue: local business groups were again calling for
official action against “aggressive panhandlers” in the downtown district. I use ethnographic and historical data to show
that the organization’s institutionalization and ties to the public sector have allowed staff to develop resources and skills
for being both contentious claim-makers and influential actors in the institutional political arena.
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Mirella LandriscinaEmail: |
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Katy Jenkins 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(1):15-34
This paper focuses on recognizing the contribution made to development by grassroots women working on a voluntary basis in
long term development projects. Using the example of healthcare, the paper problematizes the widespread move towards an increased
reliance on voluntary and third sector provision. Drawing on literature around women’s community activism, the research considers
the extent to which women carrying out health promotion work in Peru have taken on this role as more than “just voluntary
work,” highlighting their long term commitment during more than a decade of health promotion activities. The paper develops
debates around the professionalization of voluntary work, particularly considering the issue of economic remuneration for
health promoters, and emphasizing the gendered nature of their voluntarism; concluding by questioning the sustainability of
poor women’s long term, and largely unpaid, involvement as the linchpins of community development projects.
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Katy JenkinsEmail: |
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Venkatamallu Thadaboina 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(2):560-570
In the present century, the advancements in information and communication technologies (ICTs) are changing the various components
of human life. The changes in the ICTs have brought a positive impact in the process of public service delivery and socio-economic
structure of communities. In India, e-Governance applications in the recent past have demonstrated their positive impact in
minimizing the processing costs, increase transparency and support economic development by income generating ventures, increase
in agricultural production, and improvements in health and education sectors, all of which promote the overall quality of
life of rural people. This paper reviews the e-Governance initiative called the Warana Wired Village Project in the rural areas of Maharashtra, India. It evaluates the contribution of Warana Project in providing
the transactional services for the rural people with the benefit of time and cost savings in obtaining the public services
with efficiency and effectiveness and it also examines changes in agricultural productivity and improved quality of life due
to the ICT services.
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Venkatamallu ThadaboinaEmail: |
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The comparison of the automobile industry in China and India allows us to shed light on the economic processes of emergence
at large. There is a stark contrast in the capacities of autonomisation and endogenisation of the sector in the two countries.
This contrast serves as an analyser of the relationships between the modes of sector opening and the paths of technological
catching-up that is at the core of the phenomenon of emergence.
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Joel RuetEmail: |
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Edward J. Schumacher 《Journal of Labor Research》2009,30(1):9-34
This paper examines the earnings differentials among hospital workers in the public, private nonprofit, and private for-profit
sectors. Utilizing data from the 1995 through 2007 Current Population Surveys, unadjusted earnings are highest in the private
nonprofit sector and lowest in private for-profit firms. Once measurable characteristics are accounted for, health practitioners
in for-profit and nonprofit hospitals earn similar wages while public sector workers earn small but significant wage penalties.
Nonprofit hospitals tend to attract workers with higher levels of skill as measured by schooling and potential experience.
This could be explained in part by worker sorting and lower cost containment incentives in nonprofit hospitals. Wage change
analysis using pooled 2-year panels constructed from the CPS indicate no significant differences in earnings between the three
sectors of employment. Whatever the role of the sector of employment on the overall earnings of hospital workers, there is
sufficient worker mobility within the industry to largely eliminate systematic wage differences across type of hospital.
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Edward J. SchumacherEmail: |
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Amada Armenta 《Qualitative sociology》2009,32(3):279-292
Drawing on 1 year of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles, this article examines how Latina nannies create workplace solidarity
in a public park. This article reveals how nannies use public spaces in the neighborhoods in which they work to establish
ties similar to co-worker relations in other settings. This paper demonstrates how nannies create a community at the park
by incorporating park staff into their activities, reinforcing group values such as sharing and reciprocity, and distinguishing
themselves from their employers. Adding to previous research which highlights the atomization and stigmatization that comes
with domestic employment, this article shows how nannies create co-worker relationships that are buffers against unfavorable
job conditions such as solitary work settings and unappreciative employers.
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Jiang Ru Leonard Ortolano 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(2):141-168
Social movement theories provide a framework for explaining the post-1990 rise in China’s citizen-organized environmental
nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs), which consisted of at least 128 organizations as of 2004. We use a political process
model, which is based on favorable political opportunities, cognitive liberation, and indigenous organizational strength,
to explain the sharp growth in citizen organized ENGOs. In addition, we employ a world society perspective to help clarify
why the political environment in China became favorable for ENGO growth, and how international ENGO practices were diffused
within China. Our analysis shows that the relatively high status of ENGO founders together with their personal and professional
networks also played important roles in ENGO growth.
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Jiang RuEmail: |