caa a22 4500 606152083 CHVBK 20210128100547.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-015-9646-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-015-9646-3 The Netherlands: The Paradox of Government-Nonprofit Partnerships [Elektronische Daten] [Taco Brandsen, Ulla Pape] This article illustrates the development of government-nonprofit collaboration in the Netherlands. It first gives an overview of the scope and structure of the nonprofit sector and voluntary work and then explains the crucial steps in the evolution of the partnership arrangement between the public sector and nonprofit institutions. The article describes the past significance of so-called pillarization on the development of the nonprofit sector and its collaboration with the state. In accommodating a broad diversity of nonprofit organizations with different religious and social backgrounds, the Netherlands created an elaborate mechanism for government-nonprofit collaboration in which nonprofit organizations fulfill functions in service delivery and policy formation. However, the sector is now fundamentally fragmented and has little shared identity left today. Paradoxically, its past success also makes it less likely that the Dutch nonprofit sector will be regarded as a solution to current social problems. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2015 Partnership nationallicence Third sector nationallicence Civil society nationallicence Corporatism nationallicence Human services nationallicence Brandsen Taco Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands aut Pape Ulla Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands aut VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/6(2015-12-01), 2267-2282 0957-8765 26:6<2267 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9646-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9646-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brandsen Taco Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pape Ulla Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/6(2015-12-01), 2267-2282 0957-8765 26:6<2267 2015 26 11266