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New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production
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New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
406 pages
14h 46m
English
Routledge
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INTRODUCTION

Numerous scholars (Gormley and Balla, 2004; Brandsen and Pestoff, 2006; Defourny and Pestoff, 2008; Heinrich, 2008; Pestoff and Brandsen, 2010; Macmillan, 2010) have argued that public services are increasingly being delivered by third sector organizations. The new public management (NPM) belief that service provision by nongovernmental actors may be more efficient, effective and customer-oriented compared to public service provision by governmental actors might have intensified this trend. But even in countries where nonprofit organizations traditionally have played a major role in delivering public ...

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ISBN: 9780415897136