Charitable Choice At Work - Evaluating Faith-Based Job Programs in the States

Informationen zum Autor Sheila Suess Kennedy is associate professor of law and public policy in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. She previously served as executive director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and is an associate editor of the scholarly journal Policy Sciences , a columnist for the Indianapolis Star , and author of several books including What's a Nice Republican Girl Like Me Doing at the ACLU? , Free Expression in America , and To Market, To Market: Reinventing Indianapolis (coauthored with Ingrid Ritche). Wolfgang Bielefeld is professor of public affairs in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He is the coeditor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and coauthor of Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty. Klappentext Using both qualitative and, where possible, statistical data, the authors analyze the performance of job placement programs in three states with a representative range of religious, political, and demographic traits?Massachusetts, Indiana, and North Carolina. Throughout, they focus on measurable outcomes as they compare non-faith-based with faith-based organizations, nonprofits with for-profits, and the logistics of contracting before and after Charitable Choice. Zusammenfassung The Charitable Choice provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act - buttressed by President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative of 2000 - encouraged religious organizations! including congregations! to bid on government contracts to provide social services. This title looks at the evidence for and against faith-based initiatives.

Product details

• Authors: Wolfgang Bielefeld, Sheila Kennedy, Sheila Suess Kennedy, Sheila Suess (Indiana University) Kennedy, Sheila Suess Bielefeld Kennedy, Sheila Suess/ Bielefeld Kennedy
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2006
• EAN: 9781589011328
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-132-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Public Management and Change Series; Public Management and Change; Public Management and Change; Public Management and Change series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education