Preface
Contents
Part I: The Turn to Nonprofits
1. Contracting for Services in the Welfare State
The Scope of Nonprofit Service Organizations
Issues for the Welfare State
2. Nonprofit Organizations and Community
Nonprofits as Manifestations of Community
Community and the Theory of Nonprofit Organizations
Toward a Political Explanation of Nonprofit Organizations
Three Types of Nonprofit Service Agencies
Part II: The Contracting Regime
Introduction to Part II
3. The Political Economy of Nonprofit Revenues

Historical BackgroundImpact at the Service Delivery Level
The Reagan Era and a Changing Federal Role
4. Guardians of Community and Issues of Governance
Boards of Directors
Executive Directors
Boards, Executives, and Community
5. Service Providers for the Welfare State
Professionalization
Deprofessionalization and Government Funding
Volunteers and Organizational Capacity
The New Street-Level Bureaucrats
6. Services and Clients under Contracting
Imperatives of Public and Nonprofit Service Organizations

Significance of Differences between Government and NonprofitsChanges in Practices under Contracting
7. Dilemmas of Management in Nonprofit Organizations
Understanding the Nonprofit Organization
Cash Flow
The Dance of Contract Renewal
The Question of Goal Succession
Part III: Implications for the Welfare State
8. The New Politics of the Contracting Regime
Individual Agencies in the Political Process
The Rise of Associations of Nonprofit Providers
The Corporatist Politics of the Contracting Regime
The Nonprofit Sector under Attack

9. Privatization in Human Services: A CritiqueWhy Does Government Contract with Nonprofit Agencies?
Perfmmance Assessment
The Irony of Privatization through Contracting
10. Government, Nonprofit Agencies, and the Welfare State
Issues of Citizenship
Contracting as Symbolic Politics
Toward a Balanced Approach to Communal Prouision
Tables
Notes
Index