Administering Services and Managing Contracts: The Dual Role of Government Human Services Officials

摘要

Government's increasing utilization of nonprofit service providers across a wide spectrum of publicly supported functions, as noted by S. Smith and Sandfort, draws the attention of public officials and administrators to the consequences of these relationships for policy and management. Just as government administrators address the management and performance of direct public services-discussed by Richard Nathan, Dennis Smith, and Beryl Radin in JPAM 28(3) - they must also take into account the management of services and systems that they have contracted to nonprofit organizations.