New Public Governance

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Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture. Miriam J. Wells. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. 339 pp.

Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture

Winners take all: the elite charade of changing the world

While nonprofit organizations are frequently understood as influencing policy through advocacy, the policy influence of nonprofit service provision has not been widely acknowledged within the context of the policy process. In spite of this oversight, nonprofit organizations have significant discretion over the publicly funded services they provide, and public policy is continuously shaped through nonprofit service delivery. Furthermore, nonprofit organizations frequently embody the roles of interest group and policy implementer simultaneously. The advocate-provider framework presented here situates these concurrent nonprofit functions within the policy process context. This framework connects research and theory across policy process, public management, and nonprofit management scholarship. The advocate-provider perspective challenges assumptions from existing scholarship while highlighting the need for future research that jointly investigates nonprofit advocacy, public service provision, and policy processes.

Nonprofits as Advocates and Providers: A Conceptual Framework

The role of private funding and management in U.S. urban public services has expanded through the auspices of private nonprofit organizations in formal relationships with government and aided by la...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1078087419843186

Philanthropic Partnerships in the Just City: Parks and Schools:

More than half the U.S. farm labor force is undocumented, and thousands of U.S. employers hire farmworkers through the short-term H-2A visa program. Immigration enforcement and H-2A policy thus hav...

Expanding the Field of View: The Role of Agricultural Employers in Street-Level Immigration Policy Implementation:

Urban schools in many OECD countries are contending with policy trends that squeeze budgets and incentivize parent fundraising. The trend may be most pronounced and longstanding in the US, ...

Regulating private support for public goods: de-clubbing public schools

In a context of growing demand for home-based direct care services, the need to retain direct care workers (DCWs) is clear. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act, and state-level changes in Medicaid support for home-based care together have affected agencies that hire DCWs, with implications for an issue that affects worker satisfaction: scheduling. Many home-based aides employed by agencies cannot count on consistent or sufficient hours. Hours shortfall and instability have been recognized as important issues for retail and restaurant workers, but focused on less for care aides. This study uses semistructured interviews with agency representatives to examine these issues from an employer perspective, with a focus on how the competing influences of health care, labor, and employment policy shape scheduling and a review of how recommendations for changes in policy and practice in other sectors might apply to home care.

Where Policy Meets Practice: Employer Perspectives on Scheduling and Hours for Home Care Aides.

Amidst state-level budgetary pressures and growing elderly populations, many US states have adopted managed care for home-based services funded through the Medicaid program. New York State’s managed care mandate is part of a Medicaid ‘Redesign’ targeting health outcomes, cost control, and administrative efficiency, reflecting features emphasized by both governance and New Public Management frameworks, but neither adequately captures this case. Incorporating a Polanyian perspective can elucidate this market expansion and related reactions and re-regulation. Drawing from interviews with staff of service-providing agencies, this case study reveals outcomes contrary to goals: administrative complexity, containment of care, and unexpected costs.

Elizabeth Nisbet

Papers

Philanthropic Partnerships in the Just City: Parks and Schools:

Expanding the Field of View: The Role of Agricultural Employers in Street-Level Immigration Policy Implementation:

Regulating private support for public goods: de-clubbing public schools

Where Policy Meets Practice: Employer Perspectives on Scheduling and Hours for Home Care Aides.

A hands-on hands-off approach: governance of managed long-term care services in a context of rapid policy change