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Salamon, Lester M. ed. 2002. Tools of Government Handbook. New York: Oxford University Press.
Skocpol, Theda. and Morris P. Fiorina. 1999: “Advocates Without Members: The Recent Transformation of American, Civic Life,” in Civic Engagement in American Democracy, ed. by T. Skocpol and M. Fiorina. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1999.
Smith, Steven R. and M. Lipsky. 1993: Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Tendler, Judith. 1997: Good Government in the Tropics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Warren, Mark. 2001: Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Steven Rathgeb Smith is associate professor of public affairs at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of washington. He is the editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the journal of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
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Smith, S.R. Government and nonprofits in the modern age. Soc 40, 36–45 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-003-1016-x
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