Germany’s traditional nonprofit sector, rooted in membership associations that served as intermediaries between citizens and government, is a story of the past. The organizations have either suffered ...from a significant decrease in membership, or they have turned into business-like organisations. As a result, welfare partnership is still in place. However, the partners have significantly changed: governments are enchanted with the logic of the market; nonprofit organizations are no longer part of civil society but proxies of corporate enterprises, and volunteering is welcomed by the government as a substitute for cheap labour.
Third sector impact; Volunteering; Charity; European Commission; Political legitimacy; Third Sector in Europe; Third Sector as a Renewable Resource; Obstacles to Third Sector Organisation; ...Development in Europe
A Patchwork Quilt of Programs Zimmer, Annette; Priller, Eckhard
Nonprofit policy forum,
01/2021, Letnik:
12, Številka:
1
Journal Article
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How is Germany doing with respect to the fight against COVID-19? Did the German Federal and the country’s Regional Governments enact a coordinated approach, and did the sector have the opportunity to ...co-operate with government and have a “voice” in the policy process? Based on the results of recent empirical studies and desk-top, internet-based research, these questions are addressed and the outcome is that there were numerous programs issued by the Federal and regional German governments that buffer the effects of the crisis is having on the sector. However, the programs were not developed in co-operation with the sector and were not easy to access, particularly for small and non-professionalized nonprofits.
Is civil society’s influence favorable to the evolvement of democratic structures and democratic gender relations? While traditional approaches would answer in the affirmative, the authors highlight ...the ambivalences. Focusing on women’s organizations in authoritarian and hybrid regimes, they cover the full spectrum of civil society’s possible performance: from its important role in the overcoming of power relations to its reinforcement as backers of government structures or the distribution of antifeminist ideas.
Phantom limb pain is a restricting condition for a substantial number of amputees with quite different characteristics of pain. Here, we report on a forearm amputee with constant phantom pain in the ...hand, in whom we could regularly elicit the rare phenomenon of referred cramping phantom pain by touching the face. To clarify the underlying mechanisms, we followed the cramp during the course of an axillary blockade of the brachial plexus. During the blockade, both phantom pain and the referred cramp were abolished, while a referred sensation of “being touched at the phantom” persisted. Furthermore, to identify the cortical substrate, we elicited the cramp during functional magnetic imaging. Imaging revealed that referred cramping phantom limb pain was associated with brain activation of the hand representation in the primary sensorimotor cortex. The results support the hypothesis that referred cramping phantom limb pain in this case is associated with a substantial brain activation in the hand area of the deafferented sensorimotor cortex. However, this alone is not sufficient to elicit referred cramping phantom limb pain. Peripheral inputs, both, from the arm nerves affected by the amputation and from the skin in the face at which the referred cramp is evoked, are a precondition for referred cramping phantom limb pain to occur, at least in this case.
This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of ...its major contours, including its structure, sources of support, and recent trends. It also assesses the impact of this sector in Europe which considers its contributions to European economic development, citizen well-being and human development. The Third Sector As A Renewable Resource for Europe presents the findings of the Third Sector Impact (TSI) project funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7). It recognises that in a time of social and economic distress, as well as enormous pressures on governmental budgets, the third sector and volunteering represent a unique ‘renewable resource’ for social and economic problem-solving and civic engagement in Europe.
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