Hands Off My Regime! Governments’ Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Non-Governmental Organizations in Poor and Middle-Income Countries

EMERGING DISCOURSE INCUBATOR: Delivering Transformational Change: Aligning Supply Chains and Stakeholders in Non‐Governmental Organizations

“…Only later Oxfam realized that government officials wanted to show to their electorate that transformational change was achieved using their own strategies and frameworks, not Oxfam's (Ndababonye, ). To an extreme, governments can revoke the Annual Registration Certificates of INGOs and civil society organizations, if they perceive that an ongoing intervention diminishes their power or runs against projects that they consider as foundational for the country's economic growth (Doan, ,b; Dupuy, Ron & Prakash, ).…”

A Faithful Alliance Between the Civil Society and the State: Actors and Mechanisms of Accommodating Syrian Refugees in Istanbul

“…Dupuy et al. () scrutinize the reasons behind the accentuated state control over NGOs and the restrictions on allocation of foreign aid to domestically operating NGOs in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Their analysis reveals that governmental policy making in relation to civil society organizations is influenced by three imperatives: the perceived risk of weakened sovereignty and legitimacy, the need for aid flows as an economic resource and the potential harms to its reputation as an international norm complier (Ibid, 302–3).…”

“…Examining the state-civil society relations, Wiktorowicz (2000, 43-4) points out that political liberalization undertaken by many of the Middle Eastern countries did not put an end to state control but rather changed its form "from overt repression toward less visible forms of social control in the region" by means of regulations that enabled the state to monitor the activities of civil society actors. Dupuy et al (2016) scrutinize the reasons behind the accentuated state control over NGOs and the restrictions on allocation of foreign aid to domestically operating NGOs in low-and middle-income countries. Their analysis reveals that governmental policy making in relation to civil society organizations is influenced by three imperatives: the perceived risk of weakened sovereignty and legitimacy, the need for aid flows as an economic resource and the potential harms to its reputation as an international norm complier (Ibid,.…”

Public opinion on human rights in Putin-era Russia: Continuities, changes, and sources of variation

“…Finally, surveys can illuminate how publics feel toward specific tactics in the expanding arsenal that regimes use to roll back human rights and pressure. One such tactic—the restriction of foreign funding to domestic human rights NGOs—has become increasingly common (Christensen and Weinstein 2013; Dupuy, Ron, and Prakash 2016), yet we know little about whether societies accept the arguments of governments justifying such measures.…”

“…I combine volunteered “hard to say” responses with the latter category. This battery appeared only the 2012 and 2015 surveys, but it is worth analyzing because of the growing prominence of restrictions on foreign funding of NGOs in the arsenal of tactics states use to counter organizations that promote rights (Christensen and Weinstein 2013; Dupuy et al 2016). The degree and structuration of Russian public support for, opposition, and indifference to foreign funding for such organizations indicates whether the arguments that Putin and other leaders have made to justify these actions resonate with the public and show which groups of the population are more likely to find them convincing.…”