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First published on July 28, 2008
The American Review of Public Administration 2008, doi:10.1177/0275074008320711

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Exploring the Determinants of Nonprofit Coproduction of Public Service Delivery: The Case of k-12 Public Education

Laurie E. Paarlberg1* and Sheldon Gen2

1 University of North Carolina Wilmington
2 San Francisco State University

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: paarlbergl{at}uncw.edu.


  Abstract
Americans have long formed nonprofits to voluntarily coproduce public services. However, demand perspectives on the development of the nonprofit sector and supply perspectives on the activation of civic engagement suggest potentially contradictory explanations of collective coproduction. Using the case of nonprofit support for public k-12 education, the authors explore the community- and school-level determinants of nonprofit coproduction of public education. Their findings suggest that nonprofit coproduction is influenced by unmet demand for public services and the supply of human and financial resources necessary to engage in collective action. Although the formation of a nonprofit to support a public school may be related to the demand generated by heterogeneous preferences of service beneficiaries and the human capital to self-organize, the ability to generate a significant level of financial resources to support coproduction is related to the resources of the service beneficiaries and their integration into the larger community.


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