State-third Sector Partnerships: A short overview of key issues in the debate

The theme of partnership with the third sector has been on the agenda of public management research for a long time now, not least in this journal. As an introduction to a special issue on this topic, the article discusses two issues crucial to further study of this phenomenon. The first on the type...

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Published inPublic management review Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 1055 - 1066
Main Authors Bode, Ingo, Brandsen, Taco
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 17.11.2014
Subjects
Business partnership
Civil society
Collaboration
contracting
Management research
new public governance
new public management
Non-governmental organizations
Public management
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Summary:The theme of partnership with the third sector has been on the agenda of public management research for a long time now, not least in this journal. As an introduction to a special issue on this topic, the article discusses two issues crucial to further study of this phenomenon. The first on the types or categories that can be distinguished when comparing these partnerships between countries or policy fields; the second how recent public management reforms (especially of the New Public Management variety) have affected the nature of third sector organizations and their role in relation to the state.
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ISSN:1471-9037
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DOI:10.1080/14719037.2014.957344