Bridging State and Nonprofit

Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6075712
AutoresJi Ma (0000-0003-3682-6587, The University of Texas at Austin, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen28
Número3
Páginas483-510
Fecha de publicación2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Chinese Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1080-6954 • E-ISSN: 1555-7898
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11366-022-09796-1
OpenAlexW4226347569
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas64

How are political elites embedded in both civil and political domains? I studied 246 Chinese political elites who also served on nonprofit foundations’ boards from 2011 to 2015 and conceptualized a framework to understand the state-nonprofit relationship before 2015. The political elites can build horizontal connections with foundations, helping the party-state reach nonprofit actors. They can also build vertical connections with political groups, helping foundations access political resources. The dual-role elites’ connectedness with foundations and in the polity varies by their primary positions in the political system. Effective communication between the state and nonprofit actors requires elites to have strong connections in both the civil and political domains, but the situation in China is far from ideal—those embedded in foundations are disconnected from the polity, and those connected in the polity are marginalized in foundations

China · Civil society · Embeddedness · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Social science · Sociology · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Capital and Networks