Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index.
Contents:
Definitions and historical overview -- Children and families as common pool resources: a metaphor for understanding family policies -- Strategic planning in human services: promoting competition and local responsibility for problem solving -- Public-private partnerships in human services: negotiating the trade-off between flexibility and accountability -- Linking tasks and technologies in designing community social services -- Streamlining social services -- Budgeting, managing, and monitoring for results in the interorganizational environment: an impossible dream or public-sector revolution in the making? -- Community asset mapping: place-based stories and grassroots development -- Next steps in the redesign of human services.
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