TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - A Cooperative Approach to Accountability: Manitoba's Family Violence Prevention Program
JO  - International journal of public administration
A1  - Troutt, Elizabeth
A1  - Brown, Laura K.
SP  - 309
EP  - 330
VL  - 27
IS  - 5
N2  - Can government's need for nonprofit accountability be accomplished without diminishing nonprofit organizations’ ability to pursue their goals of responsiveness and flexibility? The conventional view argues that governments’ accountability objectives conflict with nonprofits’ objectives, implying that there must be some tradeoff. This article adopts the emerging alternative view in which the two parties’ objectives are jointly pursued through a cooperative process. The analysis of a provincial funding program in Manitoba, Canada, presented here, provides evidence that such an approach is not only possible but also efficient. The program analyzed rests on a sustained cooperative process in which government officials and nonprofit managers jointly define goals and establish constraints.<p /> 
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SN  - 0190-0692
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1081/PAD-120028812
ID  - ref1
ER  -