Voluntary Sector Organizations and the State: Building New Relations, 1st Edition eBook

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In the early 1990s, voluntary organizations garnered little attention in Canadian policy circles, even though the federal government was simultaneously offloading its responsibility for essential services to the sector and cutting back their funding. Two decades later, the voluntary sector is a key public policy player in federal, provincial, and municipal politics. Rachel Laforest tells the story of how and why the federal government’s relationship with voluntary organizations changed at the end of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews and insights from governance theory, social movement theory, and urban studies, she shows why the turnaround represented a significant shift in the way citizens and policy makers view the place of voluntary organizations in public policy. Members of voluntary organizations have struggled for a stronger voice in policy making and redefined their relationship to the federal government through key collaborations such as the Voluntary Sector Initiative and the National Children’s Initiative. This deft account of how a loose coalition of voluntary organizations was transformed into a distinct sector offers a new conceptual framework for explaining dynamic state-voluntary sector relations at all levels of government.

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Voluntary Sector Organizations and the State: Building New Relations 1st Edition is written by Rachel Laforest and published by UBC Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Voluntary Sector Organizations and the State are 9780774821469, 0774821469 and the print ISBNs are 9780774821452, 0774821450. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780774821445, 9780774821476.