| Delicate Dances: Public Policy and the Nonprofit Sector Volume 79 Contributor(s): Brock, Kathy L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889119554 ISBN-13: 9780889119550 Publisher: Queen's School of Policy Studies OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: Delicate Dances explores the relations between the public and nonprofit sectors at all levels of governances and examines the role of the Third Sector in global decision-making on trade, analysing different sides of the relationship between the Canadian federal government and voluntary organizations. The authors look at the relationships in different provincial settings, focusing on Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan, examining the defining influence of government welfare programs on the lives of two local religious orders in Atlantic Canada. The authors argue that both the public and the nonprofit sectors are changing. Not surprisingly, relations between these two sectors involve a complex series of delicate dances, in which missteps by either partner can produce tangled confusion. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics - Political Science | Public Policy - General |
| Dewey: 361.763 |
| Series: School of Policy Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.02" W x 9.2" (1.51 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The authors of this book look at the relationships in different provincial settings, focusing on Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan, examining the defining influence of government welfare programmes on the lives of two local religious orders in Atlantic Canada. The authors argue that both the public and the nonprofit sectors are changing. In the public sector, the traditional dominance of central governments has given way to a governance system that interweaves action at the global, national, regional and local levels. In the nonprofit sector, groups are assuming new organizational forms and engaging in public policy more centrally, both as advocates and service providers. Not surprisingly, relations between these two sectors involve a complex series of delicate dances, in which mis-steps by either partner can produce tangled confusion. |