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Economic Approaches to the Voluntary Sector: A Note on Voluntary Failure and Human Service Delivery

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  • Brian Dollery
  • Joe Wallis

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Throughout the advanced English-speaking democracies governments are embracing the voluntary sector in human service delivery and Australia is no exception, with its new Job Network program. Fortunately economic theory has much to contribute in the formulation of appropriate policies. The extant market failure and government failure paradigms, which have proved so useful to policymakers, can be augmented by an emergent theory of voluntary sector failure, in order to design social service delivery policies based on comparative institutional advantage. This paper summarises the generic economic approaches to the voluntary sector and outlines the embryonic theory of voluntary failure. It concludes by briefly discussing the applicability of the theory of voluntary sector behaviour to the delivery of public employment services in contemporary Australia.

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  • Brian Dollery & Joe Wallis, 2004. "Economic Approaches to the Voluntary Sector: A Note on Voluntary Failure and Human Service Delivery," International Review of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 25-31, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rrpaxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:25-31
    DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2004.10805026
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    1. Joe Wallis & Brian Dollery, 1999. "Market Failure, Government Failure, Leadership and Public Policy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-0-230-37296-2.
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