caa a22 4500 477066917 CHVBK 20180405111415.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02354111 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02354111 Henriksen Lars Department of Social Studies and Organization, Aalborg University, Kroghstræde 7, 9220, Aalborg 0, Denmark aut Voluntary organisations and local government: lessons from a Danish case study [Elektronische Daten] [Lars Henriksen] The purpose of this article is to analyse the changing relationships between local government and voluntary organisations in the decentralised Danish welfare state within the field of social policy. Here major changes in public discourse have brought voluntary organisations more to the forefront in a welfare state model whose distinct public character might be fading. However, little attention has been devoted to potential problems resulting from intensified co-operation. The article explores these issues using evidence from a case study of the links between public authorities and seven voluntary organisations in the city of Aalborg in northern Jutland. This case study raises the question of whether voluntary organisations, as argued in public debate, can generally be regarded as the antithesis of the bureaucratically and paternalistically organised public social services. Rather, they seem to be co-actors, actively constructing new paradigms and practices in social policy, that cannot be captured in conventional dichotomous models. This suggests that the public bureaucracy versus altruistic voluntary organisation, or distinctions usually made between professional and volunteer motives, may be of limited use. International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), 1996 Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/2(1996-06-01), 177-194 0957-8765 7:2<177 1996 7 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Henriksen Lars Department of Social Studies and Organization, Aalborg University, Kroghstræde 7, 9220, Aalborg 0, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/2(1996-06-01), 177-194 0957-8765 7:2<177 1996 7 11266 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer