The Changing Role of the Ford Foundation in International Development, 1951–2001

Micinski, Nicholas R.

doi:10.1007/s11266-017-9850-4

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“…In fact, the positive relationship between a richer set of planning and control practices and strategic philanthropy is more pronounced for those foundations in which the chair remains in charge for two consecutive periods. This finding reflects the strong leadership role held by the chairman, who becomes a true "rule maker" within foundations (Micinski 2017), and is especially relevant in light of the gap created by the absence of a private founding body (Barbetta 1999(Barbetta , 2008. Taken together, these results are in line with prior findings of Boesso et al (2015) to the effect that "a governance system in which a powerful chairman coexists with strong board processes and board capital is associated with a more sophisticated strategic approach" (p. 211).…”

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Does Governance Sophistication Shape Philanthropy? A Longitudinal Analysis.

Redigolo¹

2020

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This paper studies how a "business-like" approach is associated with the evolution of strategic philanthropy over time in a sample of Italian bank foundations (IBFs). Data are collected by surveying bank foundations' chairs and trustees in two different periods, 2010 and 2016. The results are consistent with a positive and significant association between a progressive satisfaction about planning and control tools implementation and a wider adoption of strategic philanthropy, as perceived by members within the foundations. Moreover, trustees who bring specific managerial and/or financial competences and are offered ad hoc training at their incorporation are more likely to positively perceive improvements in the philanthropic action. Additional analyses show that when a foundation's governance is subject to changes (i.e., the former chair is replaced by a new one) the association between planning and control implementation and strategic philanthropy becomes negative, thus confirming the strong leadership role exercised by the chair within IBFs.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Does Governance Sophistication Shape Philanthropy? A Longitudinal Analysis.

Redigolo¹

2020

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“…Previous studies used this archive to examine the Foundation's early history (Macdonald, 2017;Sutton, 1987), its domestic grantmaking (Ferguson, 2013;Hauptmann, 2012;Khurana et al, 2011;Negley, 2017), and its work in Indonesia and India, where it enjoyed privileged access to top elites (Bresnan, 2006;Brooks, 2015;Wintle, 2017). The archive was also leveraged to investigate shifts in Ford's international development strategies (Micinski, 2017).…”

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

Hilson²

2023

J. Soc. Pol.

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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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“…Western governments also funded non-governmental organisations to circumvent authoritarian governments and corrupt bureaucracies (Mendelson & Glenn, 2002). Private foundations, like the Carnegie or Ford Foundations, shifted their approach to democracy assistance from directly funding governments in the 1950s to funding primarily non-state actors in the 1990s (Micinski, 2017). But providing funding directly to NGOs or opposition groups rather than governments was not necessarily effective at supporting democracies.…”

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The European Union's migration management aid: Developing democracies or supporting authoritarianism?

Norman

Micinski

2022

International Migration

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The European Union and its member states have invested billions of euros in migration management programs that purport to promote “good migration governance” around the world. But what is the impact of migration management aid on governance outside of the EU? In this article, we theorise the impact of migration management aid on governance in recipient countries by analysing the key policy areas of intervention. To do so, we focus on the effects of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa and draw on data collected from policy and government documents, in addition to secondary literature, to understand how migration management aid negatively impacts institutions of governance in recipient countries. While migration management aid may build the capacity of states to monitor borders and prevent irregular migration, we argue that this fails to account for negative externalities including human rights abuses and increased surveillance for migrants and citizens alike.

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The Changing Role of the Ford Foundation in International Development, 1951–2001

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Does Governance Sophistication Shape Philanthropy? A Longitudinal Analysis.

Does Governance Sophistication Shape Philanthropy? A Longitudinal Analysis.

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

The European Union's migration management aid: Developing democracies or supporting authoritarianism?

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