Non-governmental organizations 3402-10OPRZE

The aim of his course is to present issues connected with functioning non-governmental organizations, from perspective of civic society development and functioning of public sphere (included welfare services). We will go through basic theories of development and functioning of third sector formulated in social science, and basic issues connected with non-governmental organizations in contemporary Poland and government's policy due to third sector. These course main issues are: Place and role of non-governmental organizations in public sphere; public system and ideological conception. Liberal, conservative, social democratic, communitarian orientation. Types and forms of civic commitment, the non-governmental organizations typology. Third sector in social science: contemporary theories of third sector, research orientations, academical education development. Non-governmental organizations as a producers and providers of goods: theory of market deceptiveness, theory of contract deceptiveness, theory of government deceptiveness, theory of philanthropy deceptiveness, conception of social economy sector. Types of relation between non-governmental organizations and public and commercial sectors: between co-operation and competition; issues of state control and commercialization of non profit organizations. Birth and development of third sector in the United States and Europe; church institutions charity; friendly societies movement, voluntary associations movement, settelments movement, polish tradition of social work. The orientations of third sector progress in developed and developing countries in the 19th and 20th century; contemporary third sector in the comparative research. The participation of non-governmental organizations in the public tasks; donation culture, contract culture, the third party government conception. Juridical regulations of public (and social) benefit organization. Poland on the comparative background. Development of social, philanthropic and charitable activities in Poland; from the Nobles' Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita Szlachecka) to the Third Republic. Third sector in contemporary Poland: statistics data, research results, "sociological portrait", activity areas, potential, economic condition. Government policy towards non-governmental organizations after 1989.