Las organizaciones solidarias un análisis de su naturaleza y significado a la luz del caso valenciano

Abstract

Volunteer organizations are increasingly attracting the attention of collective action scholars. For some, in its recent stunning apogee, the denationalizing strategy of the Welfare State is revealed; for others, they are the expression of a new social movement. In this article the authors use the wide evidence gathered in the Valencian case, through diverse exploration strategies (open interviews, public opinión polis, case analysis) in order to examine such thesis. The output obtained rather shows us the heterogeneity, disparity and diversity of existing organizations, their limited sample of resources and their exiguous intemal articulation. The authors claim the need to reinterprete the Third Sector from their interactions with the remaining institutional frameworks of welfare production.