Abstract
Abstract This study contributes to the research on partnership models by comparing different policy areas, testing the existing typologies and developing new forms of analysis for the Brazilian context. The literature on partnerships regarding the nonprofit sector is focused on the great diversity of these organizations and the types of relationship they establish with the government to provide services. Most empirical studies on this issue seek to establish categories for the partnerships analyzed, usually comparing countries or policy areas on a macro level. This study observes how partnership models help to understand the differences among policy areas, observing cases in the areas of AIDS, social assistance, and culture in Brazil. The research introduced field level variables and organizational variables to establish clearer differences among the models, and to identify where they overlap. Differences among the models helped to test relational variables and use the partnership models to analyze the public policy areas on the interaction design with nonprofits. As for political implications, this study provides recommendations to advance in a governmental agenda on partnerships that can combine general guidelines with particularities related to each policy area. Finally, the study indicates that partnerships should be considered public policy instruments.
Highlights
Studies on government-nonprofit partnerships have been concentrated in European and North American contexts with few studies elsewhere
Different types of partnership are established across policy areas
In order to create an analytical framework for partnerships, we must account for the nature of this object as a changing space of interactions, which combines different organizational logics (Brinkerhoff, 2002; Bode & Brandsen, 2014)
Summary
Studies on government-nonprofit partnerships have been concentrated in European and North American contexts with few studies elsewhere. This article aims to contribute to this research agenda by comparing different partnership models, testing the existing typologies, and developing new forms of analysis for the Brazilian context. Partnerships are not public policies per se, but rather an instrument of public policies, that is, a technical and social device that organizes the specific social relations between the public power and its addressees in function of representations and of meanings of which it is a bearer (Lascoumes & Le Galés, 2012). This introduction is followed by a section detailing the methodology used. As for policy implications based on the results found in partnerships analyzed in three policy areas in Brazil, suggestions are to advance the debate on the agenda of partnerships for the provision of public services emphasizing the importance of general guidelines and specificities in each area
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