Political and Economic Approaches to Government "contracting Out" : a Study of Human Service Contracting in the State of Michigan
Author: Ruth Hoogland DeHoog
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 516
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Author: Ruth Hoogland DeHoog
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruth H. De Hoog
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1985-06-30
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1438400608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContracting out for services has become a popular technique in government's perennial quest to cut spending. Yet seldom has the practice been examined from any but the public choice approach. This book explores contracting out in the important area of human services, covering the critical conditions of contracting and the vital points of politics, procedures, service quality, and effectiveness. In doing so, DeHoog uses three theoretical perspectives drawn from social science traditions: the economic perspective of market imperfections, the political perspective of cooptation, and the interdisciplinary perspective of organizational decision-making. To evaluate the perspectives and their predictions in the human services, DeHoog has examined contracting in social services (Title XX) and employment and training programs, (CETA), primarily through in-depth interviews with participants.
Author: Robert A. Shick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-12-10
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1351017217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last 35 years, governments around the globe have increasingly contracted with nonprofit and for-profit entities designed to provide a portion of the public sector’s portfolio of goods and services. This trend can be traced to a variety of factors, including perceived or actual economic efficiencies in outsourcing goods and services, values concerning the role and size of government in society, and the financial and organizational constraints of many government entities. In the United States, child welfare services adopted a pro-contracting approach early, and a variety of other human services have followed suit, including mental health care, job training, homeless services and others. Although there is strong evidence to suggest that human service contracting is growing over time, scholarship continues to lag on topics related to human service contract management, policy implementation and innovation, performance-based contracting and evaluation. This new volume in the Public Solutions Handbook series is the first volume-length treatment of human services contracting issues, integrating both policy and practice, and exploring a broad range of issues that includes the fields of history, growth, innovations, results and outcomes, best practices and the future of government human service contracting. Chapters in this book examine specific human service contracts, both in the U.S. and abroad, geared to practitioners in the public sector—from local government service contractors to municipal employees—as well as MPA students and those enrolled in courses on intergovernmental relations and nonprofit management.
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 114
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 816
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 848
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780947081966
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Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Omnigraphics
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 470
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 462
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynn R. Harvey
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 44
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