Voluntary Sector Organizations and the State: Building New Relations - Softcover

Laforest, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774821450 ISBN 13: 9780774821452

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2012

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In the early 1990s, voluntary organizations garnered little attention in Canadian policy circles, even though the federal government was simultaneously offloading its responsibility for essential services to the sector and cutting back their funding. Two decades later, the voluntary sector is a key public policy player in federal, provincial, and municipal politics. Rachel Laforest tells the story of how and why the federal government’s relationship with voluntary organizations changed at the end of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews and insights from governance theory, social movement theory, and urban studies, she shows why the turnaround represented a significant shift in the way citizens and policy makers view the place of voluntary organizations in public policy. Members of voluntary organizations have struggled for a stronger voice in policy making and redefined their relationship to the federal government through key collaborations such as the Voluntary Sector Initiative and the National Children’s Initiative. This deft account of how a loose coalition of voluntary organizations was transformed into a distinct sector offers a new conceptual framework for explaining dynamic state - voluntary sector relations at all levels of government.

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Rachel Laforest is an associate professor and head ofthe Public Policy and Third Sector Initiative in the School of PolicyStudies at Queen's University.

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Voluntary organizations have moved from the margins to the centre of
policy discussions in Canada, and citizens and politicians now view
them in a new way. Rachel Laforest shows how members of voluntary
organizations have struggled for a stronger voice in policy making and
redefined their relationship to the federal government through key
collaborations. This vivid account of how a loose coalition of
organizations was transformed into a distinct sector offers a new
conceptual framework for explaining dynamic state-voluntary sector
relations at all levels of government.

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Voluntary organizations have moved from the margins to the centre of
policy discussions in Canada, and citizens and politicians now view
them in a new way. Rachel Laforest shows how members of voluntary
organizations have struggled for a stronger voice in policy making and
redefined their relationship to the federal government through key
collaborations. This vivid account of how a loose coalition of
organizations was transformed into a distinct sector offers a new
conceptual framework for explaining dynamic state-voluntary sector
relations at all levels of government.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774821450
• ISBN 13: 9780774821452
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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