Handbook on Third Sector Policy in Europe Reconsidering Organised Civil Society

Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: Terra Incognita: The Third Sector and European Policy Processes, Jeremy Kendall PART II: NATIONAL AND EU LEVEL POLICY SITUATIONS 2. Germany: On the Structural Social Policy Centrality of the Free Welfare Associations, Annette Zimmer 3. France: A Centralised Horizontal Policy Community Faced with the Reconfiguration of the State Republican Model, Laurent Fraisse 4. The UK: Ingredients in a Hyperactive Horizontal Policy Environment, Jeremy Kendall 5. Italy: Between Mutual Accommodation and New Forms of Partnership, Costanzo Ranci 6. Spain: The Emergence of the Third Sector as a New Policy Player, Teresa Montagut 7. Netherlands: A Study in Invisible Ink, Taco Brandsen and Wim van de Donk 8. Sweden: Path Dependence Meet New Opportunities, Lars-Erik Olson, Marie Nordfelt and Ola Larsson 9. The Czech Republic: Self Limiting Dynamics, Pavol Fri 10. The EU Level in Brussels: Elusive but Sustained Policy Bricolage, Jeremy Kendall and Catherine Will PART III: MULTI LEVEL POLICY CASES 11. The European Statute of Association: Why an Obscure but Contested Symbol in a Sea of Indifference and Scepticism? Jeremy Kendall and Laurent Fraisse 12. The Challenges of Translation: The EU Convention and Constitutional Debates on the Future of Europe from the Perspective of European Third Sectors, Catherine Will 13. From Social Capital Pilots to 'Mainstreamed' Global Grants: The Troubled Trajectory of Third Sector Policy Transfer, Isabel Crowhurst 14. National Action Plans and Social Exclusion: An Opportunity for the Third Sector? Taco Brandsen 15. National Action Plans, Social Economy and Employment Policy: The Causes and Consequences of Quizzical Neglect, Jeremy Kendall and Taco Brandsen 16. Sub-national Implementation, Horizontality and the Third Sector: The Case of the European Social Fund, Pavol Fri 17. Market Compatibility, Services of General Interest and the Third Sector: The Dog that Hasn't Barked? Taco Brandsen, Jeremy Kendall and Laurent Fraisse 18. The UN International Year of Volunteering 2001: Lessons from a Successful Transnational Initiative Beyond but Including EU Countries, Angela Ellis Paine, Jeremy Kendall and Simone Baglioni PART IV: CONCLUSION 19. European Third Sector Policy: Patterns and Possibilities, Jeremy Kendall