caa a22 4500 606152695 CHVBK 20210128100550.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-015-9578-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-015-9578-y Frederiksen Morten Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies, Department of Political Science, Aalborg University, Frederikskaj 10B, 2450København SV, Aalborg, Denmark aut Dangerous, Commendable or Compliant: How Nordic People Think About Volunteers as Providers of Public Welfare Services [Elektronische Daten] [Morten Frederiksen] The interdependencies and conflicts between civil society and welfare states are of continuing interest and controversy among civil society researchers. Particularly, issues of motivation, collaboration, management, and institutional contexts have been subject to extensive scrutiny. Less prominent on this research agenda, the issue of public perceptions and legitimacy is highly relevant to the conversation on welfare state and civil society. This study contributes on this topic by investigating the public legitimacy of volunteer involvement in public welfare services. The article presents findings from a qualitative interview study of perceptions of welfare institutions conducted in 2013-2014 among 115 participants from Sweden and Denmark. The hypothesis investigated is that the Nordic model of welfare is legitimized by its public nature to a degree which excludes volunteers from legitimately contributing as part of public welfare institutions. Findings suggest that volunteers are held in high regard among Swedes and Danes, but the involvement of volunteers in public welfare provision is deemed both a threat to the Nordic model of Welfare and matter-out-of-place in regards to the role the interview participants ascribed to volunteers and civil society. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2015 Volunteers nationallicence Welfare services nationallicence Hybrid nationallicence Attitudes nationallicence Interviews nationallicence Legitimacy nationallicence VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/5(2015-10-01), 1739-1758 0957-8765 26:5<1739 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9578-y 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/s11266-015-9578-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Frederiksen Morten Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies, Department of Political Science, Aalborg University, Frederikskaj 10B, 2450København SV, Aalborg, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/5(2015-10-01), 1739-1758 0957-8765 26:5<1739 2015 26 11266