Third-sector organizations are more and more getting under pressure as a result of government reforms and austerity measures. To this situation the organizations are reacting with different strategies. Some of them decide on the exit option and become market enterprises. Another group emphasizes their normative orientation and increases their efforts to improve the efficiency of their activities. A third group reduces their activities to the immediate interests of their members in the sense of social closure. These developments impede the weight of the third sector as part of civil society as well as its social performance. For these reasons a new orientation is needed on the political side as well as on the side of the third-sector organizations.
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