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The Changing Relationship Between the Government and the Nonprofit Sector in Iceland |
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Dr. Ómar H. Kristmundsson,
dósent viđ Háskóla Íslands:
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Útdráttur
The paper illustrates a historical examination of nonprofit relations in welfare services in
Iceland. Variables affecting the conditions under which different types of relations are
developed are defined. The findings from the Icelandic case study coincide with other
international studies describing some general changes in government-nonprofit relations in the
20th century, from supplementary to more complex complementary and adversarial relations
using Young’s conceptualization. There are, however, some distinguishing features. The
supplementary phase was prolonged when compared to other countries and nonprofits’ leading
role in public policy making and provision of welfare services more prominent. A small and
reactive public administration can be considered an important explanatory factor.
Governmental effort to define a formal contractual relationship in the spirit of new public
management at the end of the century have seemingly not lead to fundamental changes in the
partners’ interaction. |
