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COULE, Tracey and BENNETT, Ellen (2018). State-voluntary relations in contemporary welfare systems: New politics or voluntary action as usual? Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47 (4), 139s-158s.
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Abstract
In this paper, we analyze two landmark reviews of British voluntary action to cast a critical gaze on the recurrent claim that voluntarism is facing a new era of ever more turbulent welfare systems and dramatic changes in state-voluntary relations. Rather than representing a new era, we find the current climate may be more accurately considered a collage of past relations. By this we mean a composition of reality that assembles different aspects of past realities to create a seemingly new era. This suggests that conventional discursive institutional accounts of policy change, which downplay the interrelated dynamics of stability and change, are inadequate for explaining the evolution of state-voluntary relations specifically and policy reform more broadly. Debates about public policy and the role to be played by voluntary action among scholarly and practitioner communities would be better served by greater understanding of the historical experience which has formed today’s institutions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Sheffield Business School Research Institute > People, Work and Organisation |
| Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Sheffield Business School > Department of Management |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764018755507 |
| Page Range: | 139s-158s |
| Depositing User: | Tracey Coule |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2018 17:28 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 07:22 |
| URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/17893 |
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