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16 - Nonprofits as Shaped by the Ruling Party

from Part III - New Directions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

By
Ming Hu  and
Yung-pin Lu
Edited by
Eva Witesman  and
Curtis Child
Eva Witesman
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah
Curtis Child
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah
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Summary

By following the Western mainstream theory on state–nonprofit relations, nonprofit research on developing countries usually overlooks the influence of political parties on nonprofits. However, political parties, particularly the ruling party, often decisively determine the development of the nonprofit sector in those societies. This article proposes a special model to analyze the state–nonprofit relations in the countries where a sole ruling party monopolizes the government. The model is applied in the one-party state of China to exemplify how the ruling Chinese Communist Party has fundamentally shaped the state–nonprofit relationship there in past decades. The article concludes with discussion about the model’s potentials and limitations.

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Chinese nonprofit sectorcivil societygovernment–nonprofit relationsone-party state
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Reimagining Nonprofits
Sector Theory in the Twenty-First Century
 , pp. 313 - 332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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