Global Civil Society Under the New INGO Regulatory Law: A Comparative Case Study on Two INGOs in China

Li, Shuoyan

doi:10.1007/s11266-019-00101-y

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“…Scholars have examined the impact of the INGO law and associated institutional pressures on INGO operations (Li, 2020; Nie & Wu, 2021; Sidel, 2019; Jia, 2017). For example, Noakes and Teets (2020) show that under state influence, INGOs tend to work with policymakers and NGOs with solid government affiliations rather than with citizens and grassroots NGOs, and they develop pilot projects to influence policy.…”

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“…This research was primarily conducted when the Law was just implemented (2018) and thus sets up the "pre" findings of INGOs' responses to the Law. Li (2020) examines the political logic of the INGO law in practice and argues that China's decentralized bureaucratic structure caused two similar INGOs to vary in their scope of operation. These studies highlight INGOs' precarious position in the face of authoritarian practices of restriction and suppression.…”

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Stay or exit: How do international nongovernmental organizations respond to institutional pressures under authoritarianism?

Farid

2022

Regulation & Governance

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International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are increasingly important players in global politics and development. However, they are undergoing significant adaptations as governments worldwide have instituted restrictions to regulate their activities. What explains the various ways in which they respond to these institutional pressures? In our study of INGO responses to a new restrictive law in China, we identify four strategic responses with varying levels of compliance: legal registration, provisional strategy, localization, and exit. The institutional pressures—strategic responses link is influenced by INGOs' adaptive capacity, which is in turn shaped by an organization's issue sensitivity, value‐add, government ties, and reputational authority. The integrated framework we develop for INGO strategic responses can shed light on state‐INGO relations in other countries, many of which are subject to increasingly stringent regulations and a closing political environment.

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Farid

2022

Regulation & Governance

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“…Thus, representatives of INGOs with a longer track record of local-level social programmes reported only minor changes due to the ONGO Law in conversations in September 2018 and June 2019 -apart from tedious additional bureaucratic paperwork (Int09, Int10, Int15). The importance of such organisation-specific factors -rather than a systematic difference between regions -has also been highlighted in previous case study research on the ONGO Law's implementation (Li 2020). Through our theoretical lens, this means that in some cases informal rules-in-use may be continuing to work reasonably well for all parties involved (E06; Jia 2018).…”

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China’s Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society

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Lang

2021

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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China's law to control international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) has sent shockwaves through international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil society and expert communities as the epitome of a worldwide trend of closing civic spaces. Since the Overseas NGO Management Law was enacted in January 2017, its implementation has seen mixed effects and diverging patterns of adaptation among Chinese party-state actors at the central and local levels and among domestic NGOs and INGOs. To capture the formal and informal dynamics underlying their mutual interactions in the longer term, this article employs a theory of institutional change inspired by Elinor Ostrom's distinction between rules-in-form versus rules-in-use and identifies four scenarios for international civil society in China -"no change," "restraining," "recalibrating" and "reorienting." Based on interviews, participant observation and Chinese policy documents and secondary literature, the respective driving forces, plausibility, likelihood and longer-term implications of each scenario are assessed. It is found that INGOs' activities are increasingly affected by the international ambitions of the Chinese party-state, which enmeshes both domestic NGOs and INGOs as agents in its diplomatic efforts to redefine civil society participation on a global scale.

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“…WorkersFirst, on the other hand, remained financially autonomous by maintaining a diverse set of funding sources. It relied consistently on international 35 The Foreign NGO Management Law of 2017 stipulates that all INGOs in China must register with the public security bureau before conducting any activities, including funding domestic NGOs (Fu and Distelhorst 2018;Li 2019). 36 Kang, Yi 2019.…”

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“…35The Foreign NGO Management Law of 2017 stipulates that all INGOs in China must register with the public security bureau before conducting any activities, including funding domestic NGOs (Fu and Distelhorst 2018; Li 2019). …”

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Depoliticizing China's Grassroots NGOs: State and Civil Society as an Institutional Field of Power

Tian

Chuang²

2022

The China Quarterly

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This article employs ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to examine two distinct processes of depoliticization by non-governmental organizations advocating rights for sex workers in China. Drawing upon Bourdieu and institutional theory, we argue that the consolidation of state repression of civil society under the Xi regime created an institutional field of power to which two NGOs responded differently. While one of them relied on government procurement as its major funding source, thus diluting the original mission, the other internalized state rhetoric as it sought political legitimacy through state certification, thus sanitizing its political mission. These distinct responses were then institutionalized into organizational practices, norms and culture. Rather than portraying NGOs in China as either capable political actors or pawns of an authoritarian state, this article illustrates how NGOs are subtly depoliticized by being inculcated in a state-produced, hierarchical social order in which compliance with state norms becomes synonymous with organizational competence.

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Global Civil Society Under the New INGO Regulatory Law: A Comparative Case Study on Two INGOs in China

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

Stay or exit: How do international nongovernmental organizations respond to institutional pressures under authoritarianism?

Stay or exit: How do international nongovernmental organizations respond to institutional pressures under authoritarianism?

China’s Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society

Depoliticizing China's Grassroots NGOs: State and Civil Society as an Institutional Field of Power

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