TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karin Heitzmann
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653014488
TI  - Poverty Relief in a Mixed Economy
T2  - Theory of and Evidence for the (Changing) Role of Public and Nonprofit Actors in Coping with Income Poverty
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-01448-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053628
N2  - This study examines, both conceptually and empirically, the welfare mix in the activity field of poverty relief and specific shifts of this mix, i.e. changes towards privatization and marketization. In the first part of the study, the meanings of the concepts ‘welfare mix’, ‘privatization’ and ‘marketization’ are disentangled and the concepts are connected. Based on this conceptual framework, the second part of the study assesses the welfare mix in poverty relief and recent changes thereof empirically. The empirical part focuses on Austria. There, mainly two types of organizational actors, namely public agencies and nonprofits, provide poverty alleviation. Thus, only the roles and contributions of these two types of providers are examined.
KW  - Armutsbekämpfung, Kommerzialisierung, Privatisierung
LA  - English
ER  -