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Putting faith in partnerships : welfare-to-work in four cities / Stephen V. Monsma ; with a foreword by John J. DiIulio, Jr.
LIBRA HV95 .M65 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monsma, Stephen V., 1936-
- Series:
- Contemporary political and social issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare recipients--Employment--United States.
- Welfare recipients.
- Welfare recipients--Employment.
- United States.
- Public-private sector cooperation--United States.
- Public-private sector cooperation.
- Church charities--United States.
- Church charities.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 268 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Putting Faith in Partnerships addresses a major conceptual change in American domestic policy, begun by Reagan and now fully realized by the Bush administration: the shift of responsibility for social services from the federal government to states and communities. In this groundbreaking study of a politically controversial topic -- the debut offering in Alan Wolfe's Contemporary Political and Social Issues series -- author Stephen Monsma avoids overheated rhetoric in favor of a careful, critical analysis of the hard evidence on whether public-private partnerships really work. The book is based on in-depth studies of social service programs in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Dallas. By examining public-private partnerships between government offices and nonprofit organizations, Monsma seeks to understand how these partnerships affect the balance between government's efforts to deal with social problems and the rights of individual citizens to control their own lives. Putting Faith in Partnerships answers many previously unanswered questions in what may be the most controversial public policy debate today: about the feasibility and wisdom of government agencies forming partnerships with private organizations to provide essential public social services.
- Contents:
- Public-private partnerships : trends and issues
- The providers of welfare-to-work services
- The services provided
- The government-provider relationship
- Public-private partnerships : public policy issues.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472113933
- OCLC:
- 53951244
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