Abstract
While there is a long established and deeply embedded tradition of voluntary action and nonprofit organizing in Ireland, there has been very limited debate on a philosophy of voluntary action or on the place of the third sector in a modern democratic state. It is against this background that practitioners and academics are beginning to articulate their individual understandings of the role of the third sector in Irish society. This paper presents a framework developed from three questions to consider the place of the third sector in a modern democratic state. The questions are: What are the roles of the third sector in a society? What relationships exist between the third and other sectors? How are third sector organizations resourced within that societal context? Answering these questions contributes to a conceptualization of the third sector in Ireland, North and South.
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Donnelly-Cox, G., Donoghue, F. & Hayes, T. Conceptualizing the Third Sector in Ireland, North and South. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 12, 195–204 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012305816257
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