Title: The welfare state's other crisis
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Privatization, Government policy, Social service, Nonprofit organizations, Welfare state, Social policy, Charities, canada
Places: France
LC classification: HV268 .U38 1998