respectively. The welfare mix pertains to the interrelationships among the social orders and institutions.
The interrelationships involve differences between public and private, for-profit and nonprofit, and formal and informal institutions. A different combination of characteristics applies to each institution. Public agencies are normally formal, nonprofit organizations, while private firms are normally formal, for-profit organizations. Households are normally informal, private nonprofit organizations, while voluntary associations are normally formal, private nonprofit organizations. The private nonprofit alternative, as an example, implies that the delivery of social welfare services occurs through channels other than public agencies. Although it does not exclude public financing, neither does it mean that such provision can be equated with the motives of for-profit organizations.
Progressive politics first appeared at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The French revolution had abolished feudal pri
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