COOPERATIVES AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN SWEDISH SOCIAL WELFARE
作者:
Yohanan STRYJAN,
Filip WIJKSTRÖM,
期刊:
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 67,
issue 1
页码: 5-27
ISSN:1370-4788
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8292.1996.tb01945.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACT*The Swedish welfare system was developed in an incremental fashion in an interaction between the state and a range of voluntary organizations. Consequently, Swedish voluntary organizations do not quite fit accepted typologies, with regard to underlying normative principles, fields of activity and organizational forms. The absolute size of the Swedish nonprofit sector is comparable with that of other European countries. However, the bulk of its activity is within policy formulation, rather than service provision; concepts of membership and popular movement are central, and charitable organizations are marginal. The spread of existing organizational forms is reviewed, with particular reference to the role of cooperatives. New cooperative users' and producers' organizations play an important role in the current expansion of third‐sector organizations providing welfare services. Three case descriptions of new cooperative forms are appende
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