<i>Social Policy in a Cold Climate: Health and Social Welfare in Russia</i>

Titterton, Mike

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9515.2006.00478.x

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“…This is not the case in the context of the Russian Federation (Titterton, 2006). Yet, understanding NPO advocacy in such a context is important for a number of reasons.…”

Section: Npo Advocacy Tacticsmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…The health sector in particular has seen an increased demand for services related to issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, mental health, and HIV/AIDS; areas in which Russian practices are said to be lagging behind global best practice (Titterton, 2006). Further, Iarskaia-Smirnova and Romanov (2002) conclude that resource allocation and social service provision by the Russian state suffers from inertia.…”

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Nonprofit Influence on Public Policy

Ljubownikow

Crotty

2015

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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This article examines the advocacy tactics of Russian nonprofits. While Russian nonprofits and their activities have been widely researched, specific insight into their use of advocacy tactics remains limited. In this article, we address this gap by broadening the understanding of how Russian nonprofits engage in advocacy. To do so we engage both Mosley’s indirect/insider framework and qualitative data collected from health and education nonprofits (HEnonprofits) in three Russian industrial regions. We demonstrate that Russian HEnonprofits, while having access to various advocacy tactics, fail to use them effectively. They are instead used for organizational maintenance and case/client advocacy. In conclusion, we discuss a potential typology of advocacy tactics in Russia, the usefulness of Mosley’s framework in this context and the implications of the failure to advocate for democratization within the Russian Federation.

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“…This is not the case in the context of the Russian Federation (Titterton, 2006). Yet, understanding NPO advocacy in such a context is important for a number of reasons.…”

Section: Npo Advocacy Tacticsmentioning

confidence: 92%

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confidence: 99%

Nonprofit Influence on Public Policy

Ljubownikow

Crotty

2015

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…Government welfare spending -initially understood as a response to institutional decisions made by a government due to public preferences (Esping-7 Andersen, 1989;Salamon & Anheier, 1998) -also suffers from data reliability issues in the postCommunist context. In particular in some FSU states, rather than public preferences influencing government decision-making, welfare spending drastically decreased in the early years of economic transition as a result of budgetary constraints imposed by the Washington Consensus (Titterton, 2006). Wagner (2000) offers the idea of the 'public sphere' -the societal space where individuals can assemble freely and express opinions without restriction (Habermas & Burger, 1996) -as alternative proxy for the nonprofit sector size.…”

Section: Social Origins Theory (Sot)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Civil liberties and Volunteering in Six Former Soviet Union Countries

Kamerāde

Crotty

Ljubownikow

2016

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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To contribute to the debate as to whether volunteering is an outcome of democratization rather than a driver of it, we analyze how divergent democratization pathways in six countries of the former Soviet Union have led to varied levels of voluntary work. Using data from the European Values Study, we find that Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia -which followed a Europeanization path -have high and increasing levels of civil liberties and voluntary work. In Russia and Belarus, following a pre-emption path, civil liberties have remained low and voluntary work has declined. Surprisingly, despite the Orange Revolution and increased civil liberties, voluntary work rates in Ukraine have also declined. The case of Ukraine indicates that the freedom to participate is not always taken up by citizens. Our findings suggest it is not voluntary work that brings civil liberties, but rather that increased civil liberties lead to higher levels of volunteering.

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“…At the same time, national commitments to other types of assistance were maintained, including healthcare, pensions, and payments to invalids. However, even these national systems refl ect resource or wealth disparities between regions of the country, and the quality and accessibility of assistance varies (Titterton, 2006). For example, pensioners in Moscow receive substantial pension subsidies from the city government in addition to national pension amounts.…”

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Local Nonprofit Welfare Provision: The United States and Russia

Wathen¹,

Allard²

2014

PAI

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Provision of antipoverty and other social services by nonstate organizations is growing in importance in both the United States and the Russian Federation. Th e history of such provision in the United States may off er insights for the emerging system of nonstate provision in Russia. To illuminate these points, we provide historical overviews of both contexts and then we examine data from two surveys of social service organizations in the United States: the Multi-City Survey of Social Service Providers and the Rural Survey of Social Service Providers.We fi nd that nonstate actors strengthen social capital in poor neighborhoods and oft en link poor persons to public agencies. Nonstate actors strengthen other local institutions through programmatic partnerships and collaboration. However, fi nancing arrangements of nonstate welfare provision may favor effi ciency over concerns about equity, sustainability, and predictability. In addition, the primacy of nonstate provision leads to a welfare state that is more varied geographically than might be anticipated otherwise. Such variability appears to disadvantage highpoverty and predominately minority communities the most. Finally, politically, nonstate welfare provision may occur with little public discussion, debate, or refl ection as it evolves over time. Th ese fi ndings invoke important questions for Russian policy-makers as they seek to develop an equitable and effi cient means of providing assistance to their population.

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Social Policy in a Cold Climate: Health and Social Welfare in Russia

Cited by 20 publications

References 55 publications

Nonprofit Influence on Public Policy

Nonprofit Influence on Public Policy

Civil liberties and Volunteering in Six Former Soviet Union Countries

Local Nonprofit Welfare Provision: The United States and Russia

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