Privatizing the welfare state: Nonprofit community-based organizations as political actors

American Sociological Review

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 265-291

  Marwell, Nicole P ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; SERVICE PROVISION; WELFARE PROVISION;

EID: 2642587479     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000312240406900206     Document Type: Article

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