Public administrations and voluntary associations: content and the scope of their interactions

Abstract

The process of change of the Welfare State causes redefinition of the relations between the public administrations and organizations of the Third Sector. In this process, the entities of social action receive an increasing protagonism and new forms of approximation to the public administration appear. The article is about the content and the scope of the above mentioned interactions in the autonomic and local space. It exposes the trends that the public administrations follow in their approximation to the organizations of the social action and the way in that organizations act with the administrations. It advances, likewise, one valuation of the interpretations realized in the last years.