Voluntary Sector Organizations and the State

Building New Relations

By Rachel Laforest
Categories: Social Sciences, Political Science, Public & Social Policy, Canadian Political Science, Sociology
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774821445, 192 pages, September 2011
Paperback : 9780774821452, 192 pages, July 2012
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774821469, 192 pages, November 2011
Buy Direct
View Table of Contents

Table of contents

1 The Changing Relationship between the State and the Voluntary Sector

2 Theorizing the Relationship between the State and the Voluntary Sector

3 Laying the Foundation for Collaboration: The Canadian Case

4 Building Identity and Agency in the Voluntary Sector: From Strategy to Action

5 Designing a Blueprint for Collaboration: Looking at the Big Picture

6 Organizational Dynamics and the Impact of Collaboration

7 Conclusions

Appendices

1 Characteristics of voluntary organizations engaged at a macro scale

2 Characteristics of national organizations in the field of children and family services

3 Characteristics of provincial organizations in the field of children and family services

4 Characteristics of local organizations in the field of children and family services in the Ottawa region

5 Characteristics of local organizations in the field of children and family services in the Montreal region

Notes

References

Index

A deft account of the developments and strategies that transformed voluntary organizations into a distinct political constituency with a strong voice in public policy.

Description

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.

Awards

  • Winner, ANSER/ARES Book Prize, Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research 2014