Putting Faith in Partnerships
Subtitle: Welfare-to-Work in Four Cities (Contemporary Political and Social Issues)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: July 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780472113934
Subjects: Central government; Employment & unemployment; Social welfare & social services; Business & Economics; Sociology; Business/Economics; Labor; Poverty; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Political Science / Economic Policy; Church charities; Employment; Public-private sector cooperat; Public-private sector cooperation; United States; Welfare recipients
First sentence: Polls regularly show that Americans believe government should play an active, positive role in helping the sick, the old, the very young, and others who are experiencing severe needs; the same polls show Americans are deeply distrustful of government.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.