Public good theories of the non-profit sector: Weisbrod revisited

Bruce R. Kingma

doi:10.1007/BF02354191

Public good theories of the non-profit sector: Weisbrod revisited

Bruce R. Kingma

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Burton Weisbrod's 1975 article, Toward a theory of the voluntary non-profit sector in a three-sector economy, models non-profit organisations as suppliers of public goods which are undersupplied by government to heterogeneous populations. This article examines the implications, extensions and empirical tests of the Weisbrod theory. It also examines the theories of pure and impure altruism, the heterogeneity hypothesis, and the various ‘publicness’ indexes of non-profit output. The commonalities between the public good model and the trustworthiness model of non-profit organisations are also explored.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	135-148
Number of pages	14
Journal	Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations: Official journal of the International Society for Third-Sector Research
Volume	8
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354191
State	Published - Jun 1994
Externally published	Yes

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Sociology and Political Science
Public Administration
Strategy and Management

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