Advocacy Coalitions and Policy Change in China: A Case Study of Anti-incinerator Protest in Guangzhou

Wong, Natalie W. M.

doi:10.1007/s11266-015-9603-1

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“…Another regular refrain was, “What about advocacy?”—activities aimed at raising awareness, for example, about the rights of hepatitis carriers to attend university or the illegality of gender-based discrimination in hiring. Prior to the recent crackdown on civil society, at least, Chinese NGOs have enjoyed some success in influencing public opinion and official actions on issues such as domestic violence (Bräuer, 2016; Leggett, 2016) and the environment (Wong, 2016). Would these kinds of “activities” be considered charitable?…”

Section: Methods and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Regulation as Political Control: China’s First Charity Law and Its Implications for Civil Society

Spires

2019

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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With the passage of a nationwide Charity Law in March 2016, Chinese nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) entered a new and unprecedented era of legal regulation, one that dramatically transformed the formal rules governing state–civil society relations. This article highlights problems experienced under earlier regulations and outlines the major features of the new law. Drawing on multiple focus groups and interviews with grassroots NGOs around China, the article highlights gaps between NGO leaders’ understandings of their work and several of the law’s key provisions, revealing civil society’s skepticism and pessimism about prospects for change. It concludes by considering the law’s likely implications for civil society development in China and lessons for other authoritarian states, suggesting that regulation in such regimes should be seen more properly as a tool of political control.

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Section: Methods and Datamentioning

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Regulation as Political Control: China’s First Charity Law and Its Implications for Civil Society

Spires

2019

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…In some regions, leading organizations and intellectuals have built strong, albeit informal, mutual support networks (Wu, 2013). An extensive literature has traced how ENGOs formed ad hoc coalitions with peer groups and other actors to stop or alter policy decisions on highprofile investment projects (Han, Swedlow, and Unger, 2014;Johnson, 2013;Li, Liu, and Li, 2012;Mertha, 2009;Steinhardt and Wu, 2016;Wong, 2016;Yang and Calhoun, 2007). Scholars have also revealed the emergence of loose, issue-specific networks linking ENGOs and other actors over recent years (Bondes and Alpermann, 2019;Bondes and Johnson, 2017;Hsu and Hasmath, 2017).…”

Section: Horizontal Relations In China's Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Alliance Building among Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in China: The Emergence and Evolution of the Zero Waste Alliance

Steinhardt

2020

Modern China

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Despite the Chinese state’s long-standing wariness of strong horizontal linkages among nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and a deteriorating political climate for civil society activism, cross-regional alliances among NGOs have become a persistent phenomenon in recent years. This article draws on the case of the Zero Waste Alliance—a nationwide coalition of environmental NGOs engaged in waste-related matters—to identify structural conditions that encouraged its emergence and illuminate how alliance builders have interpreted their environment. The article argues that developments internal to the environmental NGO sector (an increased need to pool scarce resources and professional knowledge, a stronger inclination to collaborate among a new generation of NGO leaders, and the formation of epistemic communities), combined with conditional state lenience, have propelled activists to embark on a strategy of alliance building. This case illustrates how the perceived boundary of the permissible shifts when structural conditions incentivize entrepreneurial activists to explore new strategies, and these attempts do not provoke repressive responses. It also highlights that the state has remained conditionally tolerant of boundary-pushing NGO behavior in a sector aligning with its interests, while strengthening political control over civil society.

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“…A series of edited volumes by Cole and McGinnis (2015 summarize the contributions of Elinor Ostrom (architect of the IAD) and the Bloomington School of Political Economy in areas of resource governance, policy analysis, and policy application. Another trend is the appearance of policy-relevant scholarship in non-policy journals, such as works published in the Journal of Cleaner Production (Chandran, Hoppe, De Vries, & Georgiadou, 2015), Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research (Harrinkari, Katila, & Karppinen, 2017), Journal of Risk Research (Hunka, Meli, Palmqvist, Thorbek, & Forbes, 2015), Voluntas (Wong, 2016), and BioScienc e (Blair et al, 2017), among others.…”

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Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

Ruseva¹,

Foster

Arnold

et al. 2019

Policy Studies Journal

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Policy scholars have effectively leveraged policy process models, theories, and frameworks to respond to a variety of important environmental questions. For example, how do environmental issues arrive on the agendas of policymakers? What factors contribute to environmental policy change? What are the designs and effects of institutions (e.g., policies or cultural norms) on environmental governance? In this review, we survey the field of policy process scholarship, focusing on environmental governance, with three objectives. The first objective is to catalog the policy process models, theories, and frameworks most often featured in studies of environmental governance. The second is to capture the methodological choices commonly employed in the application of these models, theories, and frameworks in environmental domains. The third is to identify how these approaches deal with issues central to environmental governance research, including time, space, and policy scale. We aim to identify trends and strategies for integrating key considerations of scale into empirical policy process scholarship.

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Advocacy Coalitions and Policy Change in China: A Case Study of Anti-incinerator Protest in Guangzhou

Cited by 36 publications

References 14 publications

Regulation as Political Control: China’s First Charity Law and Its Implications for Civil Society

Regulation as Political Control: China’s First Charity Law and Its Implications for Civil Society

Alliance Building among Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in China: The Emergence and Evolution of the Zero Waste Alliance

Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

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