From Contracting to Collaborative Governance for Elderly Care and Beyond: Dynamic Evolution of Government-Nonprofit Relations in Shanghai
Monday, November 2, 201512:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Encina Hall, Third Floor, Central, C330
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
This event has moved from the 4:30pm talk to a noon talk.
Nonprofit organizations are engaged in public sector management as service deliverers, and more recently, as governance partners. Such a role shift of nonprofits can be explained by a couple of spontaneous mechanisms that link service contracting to collaborative governance. The evolving elderly service contracting in Shanghai discloses that contracting may induce power sharing, consolidate mutual trust, reshape community governance networks, and spur nonprofit development. Contracting nonprofits thus may make decisions, enforce regulatory functions, set rules, and influence community governance. An evolutionary perspective provides a new angle on the changing government-nonprofit relations in China.