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The third sector and welfare state modernisation: Inputs, activities and comparative performance Civil Society Working Paper 14 Jeremy Kendall and Martin Knapp December 2000 Abstract This paper charts the economic contribution of the third sector in the UK, noting its significant presence in core welfare state fields, and setting it in comparative international context. It then offers a conceptual framework, the “production of welfare” approach, for analysing how the third sector “performs” in welfare states in terms of inputs and outputs. Efficiency, effectiveness, equity, advocacy, choice and participation are discussed in this context. Social and political pressures which make it imperative to examine efficiency in the particular case of social care for older people in Europe are then identified, and the third sector’s “performance” in terms of economy, efficiency and effectiveness is explored. Acknowledgement This is an English version of a paper originally published in Spanish as ‘Modernizacion del tercer sector y del Estado de Bienestar: aportaciones, actividades y rendimiento comparativo’ in Santiago Muñoz Machado, José Luis García Delgado and Luis González Seara (eds.), Las Estructuras del Bienestar en Europa, Fundación ONCE, Madrid, 2000. We are grateful to the editors’ encouragement with the paper. It draws heavily on the Mixed Economy of Care (MEOC) research programme undertaken jointly between PSSRU at LSE and the Nuffield Institute for Health. About the authors The authors are respectively Research Fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) and the Centre for Civil Society (CCS), London School of Economics and Political Science; and Director, PSSRU, London School of Economics and Political Science. Jeremy Kendall: Email: J.Kendall@lse.ac.uk; Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6147; Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6131 Martin Knapp: Email: M.Knapp@lse.ac.uk; Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6225; Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6131 Correspondence should be ad