Multilevel political connections and nonprofit revenues under authoritarianism: Evidence from Chinese foundations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wang, Qun
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; University of Toledo
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12663
• 发表日期: 2022
• 关键词: RELATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS; environmental ngos; government control; CIVIL-SOCIETY; state; ORGANIZATIONS; performance; guanxi; POWER; Donations

摘要

Under authoritarianism, nonprofits establish formal political connections at the organizational level when they are affiliated with the state or at the individual level when they have government officials assume managerial positions. From the perspective of multilevel interorganizational relations, this article uses a sample of Chinese foundations to investigate the association of the two levels of political connections and their interactions with a wide range of nonprofit revenues. The results report no positive relationship between individual political connections and nonprofit revenues and quite limited evidence that above relationship is positively moderated by organizational political connections. At the organizational level, politically connected foundations may receive more government grants and domestic and overseas donations than civic foundations, depending on which type of agencies they are affiliated with-government or quasi-government. The results imply authoritarian states may shift toward institutionalized measures to manage nonprofits and reduce the involvement of government officials to ensure policy consolidation.