Policy Studies Review articles from December 2001

Policy Studies Review archives from December 2001

Emerging Roles of Nonprofit Organizations: An Introduction
December 22, 2001... Nonprofit organizations and voluntary associations have a long and varied history in American society. Their leadership roles in service delivery, policy advocacy, and social movements have been well documented both by scholars and insightful...

Nonprofit Organizations in Urban Politics and Policy
December 22, 2001... Nonprofit organizations are central to the current debate on the future of American urban policy and politics. Nonprofits are regarded by a broad range of citizens and policymakers as critical to fostering citizen participation, grass-roots...

Nonprofit Organizations as Political Actors: Avenues for Minority Political Incorporation (1)
December 22, 2001... Contemporary urban politics in the United States provides a fascinating paradox. One can point to the dramatic electoral success of minority politicians, particularly African-American politicians in the nation's cities. Certainly the changing...

Building the Spatial Community: A Case Study of Neighborhood Institutions
December 22, 2001... The 1995 publication of Robert Putnam's, "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" continues a long obsession among scholars with the loss of community. Early 20th century sociologists in Chicago detailed how the urban environment...

Build: Governing Nonprofits and Relational Power
December 22, 2001... Nonprofits have played varied roles in urban America. Perhaps best known is the service delivery function. For years, nonprofits and local governments have entered into contracts to provide housing, medical care, job training, and an array of...

Nonprofit Human Service Providers in an Era of Privatization: Toward a Theory of Economic and Political Response
December 22, 2001... The broad institutional venues within which nonprofit human service providers operate have undergone some fairly dramatic shifts during the twentieth century. The 1980 election of Ronald Reagan provides a useful symbolic marker of the most...

Confrontin Policy Fragmentation: A Political Approach to the Role of Housing Nonprofits
December 22, 2001... National housing legislation typically contains vague and conflicting goals, deferring important policy decisions to the implementation stage to mask conflict and secure sufficient votes for passage (Nakamura and Smallwood, 1980; Hays, 1995)....

The Prospects for Loca Democratic Governance: The Governance Roles of Nonprofit Organizations
December 22, 2001... Two features enhance the salience of nonprofit organizations' contemporary roles in public life. One is their intersect of economic and political structures where they offer a form of coordination outside of market forces and state hierarchies....

Final Thoughts
December 22, 2001... The articles in this symposium demonstrate that nonprofit organizations and voluntary associations provide a mechanism to foster social and political capital in urban communities. Not only are nonprofit organizations viable partners in efforts...