The welfare state's other crisis
Subtitle: explaining the new partnership between nonprofit organizations and the state in France
By: Claire F. Ullman.
Series: Indiana University Center on Philanthropy series in governance; IU Center on Philanthropy series in governance.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Social service -- Government policy -- France.; Nonprofit organizations -- France.; Privatization -- France.; Welfare state.; France -- Social policy.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-190) and index.