Contracting of social services has been adopted in China as an innovation in welfare
provision. This article reviews the emerging literature on contracting of services to social …

In the new era of Xi Jinping, the Party has become more assertive, reclaiming the function of
managing social organizations that the government agencies had carved out for themselves …

Purpose The paper examines the key driving factors behind the rapid and uneven growth of
social enterprises in China based on Kerlin's Macro-Institutional Social Enterprise (MISE) …

The literature on NGOs under authoritarian rule largely attributes NGOs' receipt of
government grants to their political connections. This article presents an alternative …

This research examines the effects of government funding on the service and advocacy
roles of nonprofit organizations in China through a cross-regional comparison. Based on a …

This article examines the role of nonprofit organizations in government-nonprofit
collaboration in the provision of social services in China. A single case study design is …

Purpose This study investigates partnership building between non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) and the regencies of Gunung Kidul, Bantul, Sleman, Yogyakarta …

How do authoritarian governments learn? What kind of events and experiences can lead
them to adopt more or less restrictive policies towards social actors? And, how are such …

Extant scholarly discourse on ecological governance within China predominantly
underscores the salient role of the central state. This is unsurprising given the statist policy …

Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism
addresses the long-standing puzzle of why China outlived other one-party authoritarian …