Germany – Still a Welfare Partnership Country?

Zimmer Annette () and Priller Eckhard
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Zimmer Annette: Institute for Political Science, University of Munster, Münster, NRW, Germany
Priller Eckhard: Institute for Political Science, University of Munster, Münster, NRW, Germany

Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2023, vol. 14, issue 4, 345-361

Abstract: Germany’s traditional nonprofit sector, rooted in membership associations that served as intermediaries between citizens and government, is a story of the past. The organizations have either suffered from a significant decrease in membership, or they have turned into business-like organisations. As a result, welfare partnership is still in place. However, the partners have significantly changed: governments are enchanted with the logic of the market; nonprofit organizations are no longer part of civil society but proxies of corporate enterprises, and volunteering is welcomed by the government as a substitute for cheap labour.

Keywords: welfare partnership; Germany; neo-corporatism; subsidiarity; managerialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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