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Alan Ware - Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organisations in Britain and the United States - 9780745605814 - V9780745605814
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Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organisations in Britain and the United States

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Description for Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organisations in Britain and the United States Hardback. Discusses the many organizations in Britain and the USA which are neither legally part of the state nor permitted to distribute any profits they earn. These "intermediate organizations" include charities, churches, famine relief agencies, non-state universities and social clubs. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 631.

This book is about the many organizations in Britain and the United States which are neither legally part of the state nor permitted to distribute any profits they earn. These ‘intermediate organizations' include charities, churches, famine relief agencies, non-state universities, credit unions and social clubs.

In a unique study of this area of the British and American economy, Alan Ware provides a rigorously analytical and historical account of the relationship of intermediate organizations to both the state and the ‘for profit' sector. Among other issues, the author considers the disappearance of nineteenth century working class ‘mutual' organizations, the growth of ... Read more

The book also examines the problems of regulating such organizations and explains the consequences of the British and American practice of having relatively little state intervention in the affairs of such organizations. Finally the author discusses the activities of these organizations in relation to pluralist accounts of the working of liberal democratic states.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745605814
SKU
V9780745605814
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Alan Ware
Alan Ware is Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Worcesterr College, Oxford. His books include Political Parties (editor, 1987), Between Profit and State (1988), Citizens, Parties and the State (1989) and Electoral Systems: A Comparative and Theoretical Introduction (with Andrew Reeve, 1982).

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