Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v2i3.515
Non-Profit Organizations and the Welfare Mix
Gojko Bežovan
; Studijski centar socijalnog rada, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
The tradition of the non-profit sector in the developed countries is a very long one. In the last twenty years, it has again come to the center of attention. Such a development is connected with the crisis of a social state, development, socialism and environment. For the sake of a better understanding of the topic, the author provides a terminological framework and the necessary definitions. He also present different approaches research of the development of the non-profit sector. There is also an analysis of the role of the non-profit sector in the welfare mix structure. Its development and activities have become a very important feature of the post-communist countries. The author analyzes the development of the non-profit sector in Croatia, both through the legal framework of the foundation and operation of non-profit organizations and through the platform of the Government of the Republic of Croatia. In that regard, the author points to the limitations in the development of the non-profit sector. The paper contains the results of an empirical research on the work of the humanitarian organizations in Croatia. Such an analysis helps to recognize the beginnings of the welfare mix, with an emphasis on the role the humanitarian organizations that the Croatian Government still does not recognize. On the basis of the research findings, the author gives some suggestions for the development of the non-profit sector and of the welfare mix in Croatia.
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29782
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Publication date:
1.3.1995.
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