Policy Influence of Social Organizations in China: A Comparison of Women's Organizations and Public Health Organizations
Year: 2012
Type: preprint
Abstract: Treating women’s organizations and public health organizations in China as critical fields, this paper shows how the organization-state relationships affect different organizations’ influence on public policies and representation of the interests of their constituencies. An inductive framework to generalize policy influence of social organizations is drawn in the paper, which consists of four modes of policy influence — active state corporatism, passive state corporatism, embedded pluralism, and critical pluralism — and two modes of non-influence — symbolistic state corporatism and silent pluralism. The formation and distribution of these modes of policy influence in the two types of organizations are explained by three organizational factors — motivation, capacity, and autonomy — and three different field features — historical origins, crises experiences, and politicality.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Honggang Tan
Institution: Syracuse University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1506353353