Conclusion: The Potential and the Limits of NGOs

Hilton, Matthew; McKay, James; Crowson, Nicholas; Mouhot, Jean-François

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“…The creation of the welfare state did not lead to the marginalization of voluntary action, as is often depicted; expansion of the welfare state did not weaken civic participation and the survival and further growth of voluntarism post-welfare state suggests the two are not in direct competition (Hilton et al, 2013;Rochester, 2014). Indeed, there has been noteworthy challenge to familiar narratives arguing, in various ways, that voluntary action has been in decline since the perceived Victorian 'golden age' of philanthropy (Crowson et al, 2009;Hilton & McKay 2011).…”

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State–Voluntary Relations in Contemporary Welfare Systems: New Politics or Voluntary Action as Usual?

Coule

Bennett

2018

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Authors' Note:We would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for insightful and challenging suggestions on earlier drafts of the manuscript. Particular thanks must also go to the Guest Editors for this special issue of NVSQ, Professors Steve Rathgeb Smith and Kirsten Gronbjerg, who provided detailed, instructive guidance at each stage of the review process. In this paper, we analyze two landmark reviews of British voluntary action to cast a critical gaze on the recurrent claim that voluntarism is facing a new era of ever more turbulent welfare systems and dramatic changes in state-voluntary relations. Rather than representing a new era, we find the current climate may be more accurately considered a collage of past relations. By this we mean a composition of reality that assembles different aspects of past realities to create a seemingly new era. This suggests that conventional discursive institutional accounts of policy change, which downplay the interrelated dynamics of stability and change, are inadequate for explaining the evolution of state-voluntary relations specifically and policy reform more broadly. Debates about public policy and the role to be played by voluntary action among scholarly and practitioner communities would be better served by greater understanding of the historical experience which has formed today's institutions.

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