Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and government grants under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foundations

IF 2.3 3区管理学 Q2 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

International Public Management Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI:10.1080/10967494.2022.2077866

Qun Wang

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Abstract

Abstract The literature on NGOs under authoritarian rule largely attributes NGOs’ receipt of government grants to their political connections. This article presents an alternative explanation by asking the question: Does nonprofit organizational legitimacy influence the receipt of government grants under authoritarianism? Applying logit regression to 2,021 Chinese foundations, this article proposes that passing the nonprofit evaluation, which is one of the major certification programs in the country’s nonprofit sector, is positively related to the probability of receiving government grants. Subsample analysis reveals that nonprofit evaluation is influential for the receipt of government grants primarily among foundations formally affiliated with government agencies. This article provides for the first time evidence that contemporary authoritarian regimes appreciate nonprofit organizational legitimacy, albeit still in a highly politicized manner.

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威权主义下的非营利组织合法性与政府拨款——来自中国基金会的证据

摘要关于独裁统治下的非政府组织的文献在很大程度上将非政府组织获得政府拨款归因于其政治关系。本文提出了另一种解释，提出了一个问题：非营利组织的合法性是否会影响威权主义下政府拨款的接收？本文将logit回归应用于2021年中国基金会，提出通过非营利评估与获得政府资助的概率呈正相关。非营利评估是中国非营利部门的主要认证项目之一。子样本分析表明，非营利组织的评估对政府拨款的接收有影响，主要是在正式隶属于政府机构的基金会中。这篇文章首次提供了证据，证明当代威权政权欣赏非营利组织的合法性，尽管仍以高度政治化的方式。

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International Public Management Journal PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

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5.30

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11.50%

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