The Third Sector in Europe

Edited by Adalbert Evers and Jean-Louis Laville

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Abstract: This book explores Europe’s third sector – the non-profit organisations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organisations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important yet often overlooked features in contemporary socio-economics and social policy.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D6 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
ISBN: 9781843764007
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Defining the third sector in Europe

Adalbert Evers and Jean-Louis Laville

Ch 2 From suffocation to re-emergence: the evolution of the Italian third sector

Carlo Borzaga

Ch 3 The development and future of the social economy in Sweden

Victor Pestoff

Ch 4 French civil society experiences: attempts to bridge the gap between political and economic dimensions

Philippe Chanial and Jean-Louis Laville

Ch 5 From institutional fixation to entrepreneurial mobility? The German third sector and its contemporary challenges

Ingo Bode and Adalbert Evers

Ch 6 The welfare mix in the United Kingdom

Marilyn Taylor

Ch 7 The Netherlands: from private initiatives to non-profit hybrids and back?

Paul Dekker

Ch 8 The state and the third sector in modern welfare states: independence, instrumentality, partnership

Jane Lewis

Ch 9 The European Union and its programmes related to the third system

Peter Lloyd

Ch 10 The European Union and the third sector

Jacques Delors

Ch 11 Alternative paradigms for the mixed economy: will sector matter?

Ralph M. Kramer

Ch 12 Social services by social enterprises: on the possible contributions of hybrid organizations and a civil society

Adalbert Evers and Jean-Louis Laville

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