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Service delivery through partnerships in sparsely populated areas: evidence from France and Ireland

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Meeting the service needs of the less well-off and the elderly in areas of low density population remains a perennial problem. Increasingly, partnership between two or more of the state, the private and the voluntary sectors is viewed as a strategy for delivering welfare services, as part of new forms of local governance. Previous research points to the influence of established and new institutional and associated territorial structures on the formation and working of partnerships. This paper examines the role of partnerships in home-based welfare service delivery in France and Ireland; countries which share similarities, but also marked differences in their systems of local government and governance. The results reveal that both established and new territorial and institutional structures are influential in moulding approaches to service delivery through partnership. So too is the continuing role of the state, in contrast to some descriptions of the influence of neo-liberalism.

Source: Irish Geography

DOI: 10.1080/00750770801915539

Authors: Mary Cawley, Géneviève Nguyen

Institutions: Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

Language: English

Topic: Public Policy and Administration Research

Subfield: Public Administration

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Enterprise Ireland