Between Profit and State - Couverture rigide

Ware, Alan J.

 
9780745605814: Between Profit and State
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0745605818 ISBN 13 : 9780745605814
Editeur : Polity Press, 1989

Synopsis

This book is about the many organizations in Britain and the United States which are neither legally part of the state nor permitted to distribute any profits they earn. These 'intermediate organizations' include charities, churches, famine relief agencies, non-state universities, credit unions and social clubs.

In a unique study of this area of the British and American economy, Alan Ware provides a rigorously analytical and historical account of the relationship of intermediate organizations to both the state and the 'for profit' sector. Among other issues, the author considers the disappearance of nineteenth century working class 'mutual' organizations, the growth of profit-making activities by non-profit distributing bodies and the growth and change in voluntarism. He argues that the boundaries between intermediate organizations and the other two 'sectors' are becoming more blurred in a variety of ways and that intermediate organizations do not constitute a separate 'sector' of society.

The book also examines the problems of regulating such organizations and explains the consequences of the British and American practice of having relatively little state intervention in the affairs of such organizations. Finally the author discusses the activities of these organizations in relation to pluralist accounts of the working of liberal democratic states.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alan Ware is Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Worcesterr College, Oxford. His books include Political Parties (editor, 1987), Between Profit and State (1988), Citizens, Parties and the State (1989) and Electoral Systems: A Comparative and Theoretical Introduction (with Andrew Reeve, 1982).

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745605818
ISBN 13 
9780745605814
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
308
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780691078182: Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organizations in Britain and the United States

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691078181 ISBN 13 :  9780691078182
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1992
Couverture rigide