01605pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002300040245006300063260000900126300001700135520103600152650004401188650002801232773002601260908000601286909001001292999001701302952010401319180718b2011   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBiebricher, Thomas  aFaith - based initiatives and the challenges of governance  c2011  ap.1001-1014.  aThe task of this paper is to offer an analysis of the Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI) established by George W. Bush and continued under the Obama administration based on a critical and decentred approach to Governance (networks).  The paper starts out by placing FBCI in the context of the welfae reform of 1996 arguing that both share certain basic assumptions, for example, regarding the nature of poverty, and the FBCI is analysed as a typical case of (welfare) state restructuring from government to governance.  Emphasis is given to the way discourses and traditions such as communitarisnism and public choice have shaped the formation of this new governance arrangement in the field of social service  delivery in oder to strive or a 'decentring' of FBCI by drawing attention to actors beliefs and worldviews.  Finally, I argue that it is not least because of a divergence of suchj views between policy-makers and faith-based organizations that the effect of FBCI remains for the time being limited. - Reproduced.  aUnited States - Politics and government  aPolitics and government  aPublic Administration  aN  a94189  c94189d94189  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 89, Issue no: 3pAR94649r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR