In this new edition of his popular textbook, Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management,
Policy, Helmut K. Anheier has fully updated, revised and expanded his comprehensive …

In the current environment of deepening class and income inequality, it is essential to
understand the socio-economic conditions that shape the health of individuals and …

In August 2006, along with other British social work academics, I was fortunate enough to
attend the International Association of Schools of Social Work Conference in Santiago …

Adult social care services in England are struggling, and sometimes failing, to supply the
quality of care deserved by the most vulnerable people in society. The Care Quality …

This new edition has been updated to reflect recent shifts in community and social care
whilst still providing the authoritative account of its historical development. Particular …

Serving as an introduction to the UK's voluntary sector, this book builds on the foundations
lain in an earlier book by Kendall and Dahrendorf. Using a comparative approach to place …

that “little has been written analytically about the role of the indigenous nonprofit sector...
cutting across industries and/or countries and attempting to relate these facts to the …

Civil society-comprising the activities of non-state organizations, institutions and movements-
has in recent years emerged as the major force for change in the realms of politics, public …

This study assesses the impact of competition on quality and price in the English
care/nursing homes market. Considering the key institutional features, we use a theoretical …

The first part of the paper argues that the care relationship is crucial to securing care quality,
which has implications for the way in which quality is achieved and measured. However, for …