Philanthropic Foundations and Institutional Change under Rigid Authoritarianism: Exploring the Ford Foundation’s Historical Grantmaking in the Chinese Family Planning Field (1991–2005)

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Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-02-02 DOI:10.1017/s0047279422001027

Yanfei Hu, G. Hilson

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Philanthropic foundations are important agents of global policy transfer. While scholars have explored foundations’ policy roles in a range of contexts, we know relatively little about how they transfer policies and instigate institutional change under rigid authoritarianism – fields in which the state maintains centralized control and excludes other actors. This paper seeks to bridge this gap through analysis of a case study of the Ford Foundation’s grantmaking in the Chinese family planning field during a period of rigid authoritarian control (1991-2005). We find the Foundation stimulated the transfer of the Western “reproductive health” policy through two mechanisms: 1) incentivising elite researchers to conduct scientific research on rural women that was previously left “undone”; and 2) partnering with peripheral state actors for localised experimentations and gradually gaining access to central policymakers to encourage national policy innovation. We also discuss the contingencies and ambivalences of the Foundation’s influence under rigid authoritarianism.

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刚性威权主义下的慈善基金会与制度变迁——福特基金会在中国计划生育领域的历史捐赠探索（1991-2005）

慈善基金会是全球政策转移的重要媒介。虽然学者们已经探索了基金会在一系列背景下的政策角色，但我们对基金会如何在严格的威权主义下转移政策和煽动制度变革知之甚少——在这些领域，国家保持集中控制，排除其他行为者。本文试图通过分析福特基金会在中国严格的威权控制时期(1991-2005)在计划生育领域的资助案例来弥合这一差距。我们发现基金会通过两种机制刺激了西方"生殖健康"政策的转移:1)激励精英研究人员对农村妇女进行以前"未完成"的科学研究;2)与周边国家的行为体合作进行本地化试验，并逐步获得与中央政策制定者的接触，以鼓励国家政策创新。我们还讨论了基金会在严格的威权主义下影响的偶然性和矛盾。

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