Instituting the 'third sector' as a governable terrain: partnership, procurement and performance in the UK
Instituting the 'third sector' as a governable terrain: partnership, procurement and performance in the UK
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DOI：
10.1332/030557308783995017
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发表时间：
2008-04-01
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Harlock, Jenny
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作者：
Carmel, Emma;Harlock, Jenny
在本文中，我们认为，“分散的国家”的治理正在扩展到准私人领域的志愿和社区组织及其活动。我们以公共服务提供为重点，区分了治理的正式维度和运营维度，并认为伙伴关系的目标开辟了一个新的可治理领域——第三部门——它将通过采购和绩效的运营治理机制来组织。其结果是，志愿服务组织试图正常化，成为对市场反应迅速的一般服务提供者，脱离其社会和政治背景，并剥夺了伦理或道德内容和目的。
In this article we argue that governance of the 'dispersed state' is being extended into the quasi-private realm of voluntary and community organisations and their activities. Focusing on public service delivery, we distinguish the formal and operational dimensions of governance, and argue that the goal of partnership carves out a newly governable terrain - the third sector - which is to be organised through the operational governance mechanisms of procurement and performance. The result is the attempted normalisation of VCOs as market-responsive, generic service providers, disembedded from their social and political contexts and denuded of ethical or moral content and purpose.