| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 315 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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New forum books
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New forum books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-310) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Peter L. Berger -- Mediating Structures -- School Choice -- Norm-Maintaining Institutions -- Reaching Out to Civil Society -- Challenges to the Welfare State -- Inescapable Welfare State -- Bureaucratic Ineffectiveness -- Overstepping the State's Appropriate Limits -- Government and Education -- State's Appropriate Role -- What the Civil Society Strategy is Not -- Administrative Decentralization -- Market Strategies -- Organizational Flexibility -- Promised Contribution of Voluntary Associations -- Voluntary Associations Under Pressure -- Religious Factor -- Dangers Ahead? -- Controlling Faith-Based Institutions to Death -- Self-Betrayal on the Part of Voluntary Organizations -- Strings without Money -- Stakes in Government Oversight -- Oversight of Faith-Based Schools -- Faith-Based Schools That Resist Oversight -- Scope of Government Regulation of Nonpublic Schools -- United States -- Western Europe -- Interlude: Teen Challenge -- How Close an Embrace? -- Three Ways of Understanding Government's Relationship to Religion -- Outside the Wall of Separation -- Faith-Based Social Services: Where the Wall Is Not So High -- Schools: The Unhappy Exception -- Double Bind Created by "Pervasively Sectarian" Analysis -- New Cracks in the Wall of Separation -- Funding with Government Oversight -- How Much Oversight? -- Modes of Funding -- Contracting -- Charitable Choice -- France -- Vouchers -- Child Care Vouchers -- School Vouchers in Milwaukee -- Voucher Debate. |
| Summary |
"Glenn builds a case for faith-based organizations playing a far more active role in American schools and social agencies. He shows that they could do so both while receiving public funds and while striking a workable balance between accountability and autonomy."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human services -- Contracting out -- United States.
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Human services -- Contracting out. |
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United States. |
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Human services -- Contracting out -- Europe.
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Europe. |
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Civil society -- United States.
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Civil society. |
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Civil society -- Europe.
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Church and state -- United States.
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Church and state. |
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Church and state -- Europe.
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Church charities -- United States.
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Church charities. |
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Church charities -- Europe.
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Church schools -- United States.
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Church schools. |
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Church schools -- Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Glenn, Charles Leslie, 1938- Ambiguous embrace. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000 0691048525 (DLC) 99035074 (OCoLC)41531844 |
| ISBN |
1400811783 (electronic book) |
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9781400811786 (electronic book) |
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9781400823512 (electronic book) |
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140082351X (electronic book) |
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069109280X |
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9780691092805 |
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0691048525 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691048529 (alkaline paper) |
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