The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in the Development and Provision of Welfare Services in Iceland
In the article the role of non-profit organisations in the development and provision of welfare services in Iceland is discussed. As Iceland has adopted the so-called Nordic welfare model or social democratic regime, the country should – according to Lester M. Salomon and Helmut K. Anheier’s social...
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ftubbochumojs:oai:ojs.ub.rub.de:article/7529 2023-10-29T02:37:14+01:00 The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in the Development and Provision of Welfare Services in Iceland Kristmundsson, Omar H. Hrafnsdottir, Steinunn 2015-01-31 application/pdf https://moving-the-social.ub.rub.de/index.php/MTS/article/view/7529 eng eng Klartext Verlag https://moving-the-social.ub.rub.de/index.php/MTS/article/view/7529/6701 https://moving-the-social.ub.rub.de/index.php/MTS/article/view/7529 Copyright (c) 2015 Moving the Social - Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements Moving the Social; Vol. 48 (2012): Social Movements in the Nordic Countries since 1900; 179-192 2197-0394 2197-0386 Iceland Democracy Non-Profit Organisations Welfare Service info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2015 ftubbochumojs 2023-09-30T17:59:59Z In the article the role of non-profit organisations in the development and provision of welfare services in Iceland is discussed. As Iceland has adopted the so-called Nordic welfare model or social democratic regime, the country should – according to Lester M. Salomon and Helmut K. Anheier’s social origin theory – have a limited role in welfare service provision. Instead it should have a primarily supplementary role, advocating citizens’ rights and responding to unmet public needs. Based on analysis of historical data and official statistics, our findings for Iceland only partly support the theory. Non-profit organisations, both in the past and presently, do have an important role in providing welfare services. This is especially the case of certain functional areas like services for the elderly and disabled, rehabilitation and treatment of alcohol and drug users. Non-profit organisations providing public services can be considered quasi-government agencies and have not grown in number in the past decades. Organisational growth has however continued among associations with smaller-scale operations, i. e. the so-called member-oriented groups and campaigning associations responding to unmet citizens’ needs. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB): Open Journal Systems |
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In the article the role of non-profit organisations in the development and provision of welfare services in Iceland is discussed. As Iceland has adopted the so-called Nordic welfare model or social democratic regime, the country should – according to Lester M. Salomon and Helmut K. Anheier’s social origin theory – have a limited role in welfare service provision. Instead it should have a primarily supplementary role, advocating citizens’ rights and responding to unmet public needs. Based on analysis of historical data and official statistics, our findings for Iceland only partly support the theory. Non-profit organisations, both in the past and presently, do have an important role in providing welfare services. This is especially the case of certain functional areas like services for the elderly and disabled, rehabilitation and treatment of alcohol and drug users. Non-profit organisations providing public services can be considered quasi-government agencies and have not grown in number in the past decades. Organisational growth has however continued among associations with smaller-scale operations, i. e. the so-called member-oriented groups and campaigning associations responding to unmet citizens’ needs. |
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The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in the Development and Provision of Welfare Services in Iceland |
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The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in the Development and Provision of Welfare Services in Iceland |
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The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in the Development and Provision of Welfare Services in Iceland |
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The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in the Development and Provision of Welfare Services in Iceland |
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The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in the Development and Provision of Welfare Services in Iceland |
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role of non-profit organisations in the development and provision of welfare services in iceland |
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Klartext Verlag |
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2015 |
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Moving the Social; Vol. 48 (2012): Social Movements in the Nordic Countries since 1900; 179-192 2197-0394 2197-0386 |
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https://moving-the-social.ub.rub.de/index.php/MTS/article/view/7529/6701 https://moving-the-social.ub.rub.de/index.php/MTS/article/view/7529 |
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