Outsourcing social services to NGOs in Russia: federal policy and regional responses

Cook, Linda J.; Iarskaia‐Smirnova, Elena; Tarasenko, Anna

doi:10.1080/1060586x.2020.1853454

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“…Furthermore, in these areas requiring a high level of technical exper-tise or community trust, we find that there are often opportunities created by a lack of state capacity for groups to provide not only information, but direct service delivery. Governments lacking capacity increasingly outsource diverse services, such as education or health, to nongovernmental actors (Brass 2016;Cook, Iarskaia-Smirnova, and Tarasenko 2021). We therefore predict that the lower the regime's steering capacity in a policy area, the more successful advocacy groups' mobilization, cooperation and resources, advocacy strategies, and influence will be.…”

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Lobbying the Autocrat

2023

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Lobbying the Autocrat

2023

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“…There are stark commonalities in terms of the effects contracting has on NGOs' operations, financing, and autonomy. Through the forces of globalization, neoliberalism has expanded beyond Western liberal democracies and has driven regimes of all sorts to adopt NPM ideas and practices such as contracting, including authoritarian regimes in Russia (Cook et al, 2021;Skokova et al, 2018) and China (Chan & Lei, 2017). The implementation of market-liberalizing policy is highly contextual, and the nature of the political regime is likely to play a role in shaping its specific outcomes.…”

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Effects of Government Contracting of Services on NGOs in China: Convergence and Divergence with International Experience

Martinez

Howell

2021

Voluntas

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The government of the Communist Party of China (CPC) rolled out a national policy to contract out social and welfare services to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 2013. This study explores how government contracting of services affects NGOs. We examine three areas: marketization, financial dependency, and autonomy. We find significant convergence of the effects of contracting on NGOs in China with NGOs’ experiences in liberal democratic countries, despite divergent political regimes. Found effects are explained by the combination of the authoritarian government of the CPC with the neoliberal governance structures introduced by contracting. Convergence with international experience despite divergent political regimes is attributed to the neoliberal essence of the policy of contracting of services.

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Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities

Titterton,

Iarskaia-Smirnova

2023

Social Policy and Society

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The authors provide a scholarly conspectus of comparative studies involving Russian, EU8 and EU15 Welfare Polities. They elaborate the notion of the ‘welfare polity’ and its potential for enhancing comparative studies of welfare institutions, policies and practices. This is accompanied by an overview of trends in comparative studies involving Russian, EU8 and EU15 countries, along with a consideration of how comparative research involving these states can be strengthened. Gaps in the literature and evidence base, including systematic cross-national and temporal data on the design and implementation of social policies and social protection, are highlighted. A shared concern was found with the growth of division and exclusion exacerbated by global economic factors and by state-level policy shifts, a trend especially notable in Russian studies. Fruitful pointers for future research and international collaboration are indicated and the need for further comparative efforts emphasised at a challenging time for geopolitical relations.

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Outsourcing social services to NGOs in Russia: federal policy and regional responses

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Lobbying the Autocrat

Lobbying the Autocrat

Effects of Government Contracting of Services on NGOs in China: Convergence and Divergence with International Experience

Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities

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