The regulatory breadth index: A new tool for the measurement and comparison of <scp>state‐level</scp> charity regulation in the United States

Lott, Cindy; Shelly, Mary; Dietz, Nathan; Mitchell, G. E.

doi:10.1002/nml.21536

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“…Not surprisingly, of course, there is significant variation in how many of these issues play out in different states and localities. While some recent studies have described and analyzed these variations, particularly around regulation of nonprofits (see, e.g., Lott et al, 2019;Lott et al, 2023;, there is a research gap that could usefully be filled by further examination of how nonprofit advocates seek to influence state and local sector-wide issues similar to the way this study is focused on nonprofit advocacy at the federal level.…”

Section: State and Local Issuesmentioning

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Standing Up for Nonprofits

Abramson,

Soskis

2024

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This Element examines the recent history of nonprofit sector-wide advocacy at the federal level, focusing on work done by national nonprofit infrastructure organizations and national charities, to advocate on issues, such as tax incentives for charitable giving, that affect a broad range of nonprofits. The Element draws on interviews with thirty-nine national and state nonprofit leaders and federal policymakers as well as published papers and journalistic accounts. It finds that many policymakers are only weakly supportive of the nonprofit sector. In the end, this Element points to an uneasy, shifting balance in nonprofit sector advocacy between informal, decentralized, issue-based coalitions focused on short-term, if vital, legislative victories, on one hand, and the public good mandate embraced by some sector-wide advocates, which attends to longer time horizons and a broad conception of the defense of civil society, on the other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Section: State and Local Issuesmentioning

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Standing Up for Nonprofits

Abramson,

Soskis

2024

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Three Models of US State-Level Charity Regulation

Mitchell

2023

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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The existence of federal oversight of charitable organizations in the United States implies a degree of uniformity to US charity regulation. However, charity regulation is far from uniform across the country. States differ significantly in their adoption or non-adoption of various state-level regulatory requirements, creating not one but many different regulatory environments for charities. The complexity and diversity of these regulations has made it difficult for sector stakeholders, such as researchers, regulators, practitioners, information intermediaries, and donors, to understand the nature and significance of state-level charity regulation from a comparative perspective. To address this problem, this article employs latent class analysis to identify three distinct models of state-level charity regulation: broad regulation, limited regulation, and asset oversight. Subsequent analysis identifies relationships between a state’s economic, social, and political characteristics and its model of charity regulation, suggesting new avenues of research for understanding regulatory model emergence. Many additional practical applications of the typology are also discussed.

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Does Rigorous Government Regulation on Nonprofits Improve Their Outputs? Evidence from China

Lyu,

Xie,

2024

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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This study mainly takes China as an example to explore the logic between government regulation and outputs of nonprofit organizations in the context of authoritarian countries. Based on the theory of embeddedness and organizational legitimacy, using the panel data of 29 mainland provinces from 2010 to 2019, and applying the fixed effect model, it is found that government regulation has a positive effect on outputs of non-profit organizations. However, it is also found that there exists a single threshold, only government regulation intensity keeps in a certain range, the positive effect is made. Further research finds that government regulation positively impacts nonprofit outputs through encouraging social donations. Our findings fill the gap of exploring the logic between government regulation and nonprofits outputs, giving some enlightenment to regulators of similar regimes countries. We also have improved the current government regulation theory based on legitimacy and embeddedness theory empirically, extended and enriched embeddedness theory.

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The regulatory breadth index: A new tool for the measurement and comparison of state‐level charity regulation in the United States

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

Standing Up for Nonprofits

Standing Up for Nonprofits

Three Models of US State-Level Charity Regulation

Does Rigorous Government Regulation on Nonprofits Improve Their Outputs? Evidence from China

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