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United Kingdom: The Mainstreaming of the Third Sector ... - 2000
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The voluntary or third sector in England is now receiving more sustained attention from policy
makers than ever before. This paper claims that this situation, particularly as given tangible
expression through the development of a Compact between the Government and representatives of the third sector, amounts to the mainstreaming of the third sector onto the public policy agenda. It seeks to explain why this has happened in the late 1990s, framed by the “multiple streams” approach
of US political ...
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International: Defining the Non-Profit Sector. Some Lessons from History. - 2000
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This paper seeks to establish whether the structural-operational definition of the sector, used by the John
Hopkins Comparative Non-profit Sector Project (JHCNSP), is universal in its applicability. Historical case
studies of primary health care and social housing provision in nineteenth-century England demonstrate
that the definition cannot accommodate the institutional diversity of earlier periods and does not produce
meaningful sectoral distinctions. The structural-operational definition rule ...
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United Kingdom: Putting Narrow-Mindedness Out of Countenance... - 2000
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The past environment for voluntary action conceived of voluntary organisations as acting as an
“extension ladder” for the state. But the changes now taking place in the state’s role has fundamentally
changed the context. The paper explores various alternative responses, including greater reliance on the
market and making a new relationship with the state through formal compacts, before exploring some
possible alternative futures for the sector. Themes of particular significance for those futures ...
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International: Trust and Voluntary Organisations... - 2000
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The purpose of this paper is to explore what non-profit approaches
can offer trust theories, and vice versa. The authors first set out to explicate major approaches to trust in
economics, sociology and political science, using the non-profit or voluntary organisation as a focal
point. The authors then assess the various approaches in terms of their strengths and weaknesses, and,
finally, identify key areas for theoretical advancement in an effort to enrich current theorising. In
particular, the ...
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United Kingdom: Low Pay in the UK. The Case for a Three Sector... - 2000
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This paper represents a first attempt to examine empirically the comparative extensiveness of low
pay in the third sector against the theoretical backdrop of both the generic labour market literature
and the newly emerging specialist third sector literature. It shows that the third sector occupies an
intermediate position between relatively high concentrations of low pay in the private sector and low
concentrations in the public sector. These differences do not emerge simply because the categori ...
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United Kingdom: The Impact of the Third Sector... - 2000
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This paper reports the findings of one component of the impact study being undertaken in the UK as
part of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Non-profit Sector project. Drawing upon a literature review,
expert interviews and a focus group, the paper summarises evidence on the impact of the third
sector in social housing in the UK organised using the functions and drawbacks thought to be
characteristic of the third sector in international literature.
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United States and United Kingdom: Generosity versus Altruism... - 2002
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International differences in giving levels are becoming increasingly well documented by a variety of
sources. Less well explicated in both research and practice are the social understandings of the role
and meaning of charitable giving in different countries and cultures. This paper contributes a
comparative analysis of giving ethos and behaviour in two countries, the United States and the United
Kingdom, in particular the relationship of giving to civic life. It identifies differences in giving ...
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