Government-Nonprofit Cooperation: Anomaly or Necessity?

• Published in: Voluntas (Manchester, England) Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 2155 - 2177
• Main Authors: Salamon, Lester M., Toepler, Stefan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer 01.12.2015; Springer US; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Business government relations; Cooperation; Donations; Elgar, Edward; Government; Nonprofit organizations; Organizational effectiveness; Original Paper; Political Science; Section 1: Introduction; Social Policy; Social Sciences; Studies; Welfare; New York; Americas; United States > US; Europe; Baltimore Maryland; Voluntary failure theory; Nonprofit organizations; Welfare state; New public management; New governance; Government–nonprofit partnership

This paper challenges widespread philosophical and conceptual theories of the nonprofit sector and the state that question, or leave little conceptual room for, extensive cooperation between nonprofit organizations and government. To do so, the paper calls attention to shortcomings in the prevailing...