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Co-governance within networks and the non-profit -- for-profit divide

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  • Ingo Bode

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Throughout the western world, (social) care systems have been affected by a quasi-market agenda. Simultaneously, the literature on ‘governance’ suggests tendencies towards more networking and a stronger involvement of third-sector organizations have (again) changed the rules of the game. Looking at elderly care in three different European jurisdictions (Germany, France, England) this article argues that inter-agency collaboration as such is nothing new in this field so that viewing (co-)governance as a substitute for hierarchical government or market governance does not make sense here. Rather, there is a new non-profit -- for-profit divide changing the architecture of those networks that had emerged in the pre-market era on the basis of a ‘domain consensus’ between welfare bureaucracies, professionals and civic actors. Nowadays, there is cross-country disorganization of this consensus irrespective of enduring national traditions of third-sector involvement. The result is ‘nervous’ network governance fraught with volatility and tensions. Co-governance persists but is less consistent than in previous times.

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  • Ingo Bode, 2006. "Co-governance within networks and the non-profit -- for-profit divide," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(4), pages 551-566, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:8:y:2006:i:4:p:551-566
    DOI: 10.1080/14719030601022932
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    1. Annick Willem & Steffie Lucidarme, 2014. "Pitfalls and Challenges for Trust and Effectiveness in Collaborative Networks," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(5), pages 733-760, June.
    2. Osmar Arandia Pérez & Luis Portales Derbéz, 2012. "Social Networks: A strategy for non-profit organizations," Revista Observatorio Calasanz, Universidad Cristobal Colon, Dpto. de Investigacion y Posgrado, vol. 3(6), pages .362-378, Febrero.
    3. Agostino, Deborah & Steenhuisen, Bauke & Arnaboldi, Michela & de Bruijn, Hans, 2014. "PMS development in local public transport: Comparing Milan and Amsterdam," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 33(C), pages 26-32.
    4. Karen Johnston, 2015. "Public governance: the government of non-state actors in 'partnerships'," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(1), pages 15-22, January.

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