The Distribution of Public-Private Partnerships: Targeting of Voluntary Efforts to Improve Urban Education
| Autor: | Thomas Longoria |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Scope (project management)
Social work business.industry Service delivery framework 05 social sciences Public sector 0211 other engineering and technologies Public policy 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Public relations Public administration 0506 political science General partnership Local government 050602 political science & public administration Business sector Economics business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 28:315-329 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7395 0899-7640 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0899764099283005 |
| Popis: | With increasing activity of volunteers in service provision, effectively managing voluntary involvement is a significant issue for local governments. This study examines the distribution of school-business and school-community-based-organization partnerships as voluntary efforts to improve urban education. This study uses multivariate regression analysis to examine the distribution of partnership programs as a function of school-level characteristics. Based on a consideration of the motivations for founding partnerships and the scope and sponsorship of the partnerships, several hypotheses are proposed. The study finds differences in the targeting to schools and students in the most need based on the scope of effort and the sponsorship. The findings have implications for the management and organization of partnerships in public schools. The term public-private partnership describes a wide variety of informal and formal policy-making arrangements that have a positive public image and considerable symbolic value for the public, nonprofit, and business sectors. Public-private partnerships, because they often break down public sector policy monopolies, are considered reforms to traditional modes of public policy service delivery. Partnerships and the voluntary involvement of nongovernmental actors potentially improve urban policy making by adopting decision-making rules that are informed by a market-based logic rather than a political-bureaucratic model of service provision. As a result, strategies such as privatization, contracting out, and co-production of city services have emerged as local government decision makers attempt to lower expenditures and improve the public’s perception of local government. Other motivations for establishing linkages between the nonprofit, forprofit, and the public sector have also been considered (Gronbjerg, 1987). For example, voluntary cooperation between the nonprofit, business, and the public sectors is also motivated by a desire to support and compliment each sector. Intersectoral interaction emerges from an interdependence that is related to, but goes beyond, the use of the nonprofit sector to deliver services |
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