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opportunities. An agency could obtain funding by contracting with government, provided it was willing to provide the kind of ser ...

services are established by government even when contracted out, but an agency contracting with government may also choose to in ...

A parent leaving her child in day care does not see what happens after she drops oV her child, and a person placing an older rel ...

those with the least power are at a disadvantage. Government has the power to deWne the input package and set the price it will ...

uninsured. Another lesson is that organizational analysis may have to go into detailed aspects of management such as pricing and ...

Organizations implement governmental policies at the same time that they in- novate, manage multiple programs, and respond to va ...

James,E. 1986. How nonproWts grow: a model. Pp.185 95inThe Economics of NonproWt Institutions, ed. S. Rose Akerman. Oxford: Oxfo ...

vanMeter, D., andvanHorn,C. 1975. The policy implementation process: a conceptual framework.Administration and Society, 6 ( 4 ): ...

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Finer points of deWnition and distinction are developed below, but some basics are required at the outset. Collaborative governa ...

capital has been invoked to illuminate the mechanisms of adhesion within collabor- ations and the features of cultural settings ...

Pertinent intellectual traditions in economics include game theory (particularly analyses of coalitions and bargaining) and the ...

many of the newer tools of public action is that they involve the sharing with third- party actors of a far more basic governmen ...

qualitative evolution as the mid-century heyday of the central state etched enduring patterns into organizational structures, ad ...

Growing private roles in undertakings that remain public responsibilities have further whittled down the role of the central sta ...

how government pursues those missions. In particular, the relative growth of ‘‘check- writing’’ activities (especially social se ...

over time. More importantly, the estimated non-employee share of public service spending was close to one-fourth in 1959 .By 200 ...

parallel missions. We have developed scale comparisons of outlays and tax expend- itures, atWve-year intervals, for 1975 through ...

taxation in the aggregate is exhausted, or nearly so. That is, they do not want to spend more government dollars the way those d ...

Legitimacy. Private involvement may enhance the perceived legitimacy of an undertaking if a particular task is seen as inappropr ...