Who Calls the Shots? The Real Normative Power of Civil Society

Reuter, Marta; Wijkström, Filip; Meyer, Michaël

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“…In this article, we proceed from a neo-Gramscian-inspired perspective that highlights civil society's normative, ideational and discursive functions and the fundamental striving of civil society actors to shape and mould the public's perceptions of what constitutes the public good (cf. Reuter et al 2014). Such functions include the generation and dissemination of, as well as mobilization around, ideas and ideologies, and can be, in turn, expressed through a number of voice and service related activities such as advocacy and interest representation on the one hand (voice), and participation (on religious or other ideological grounds) in welfare production on the other hand (service).…”

Section: Civil Society and Policy-making-a Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Think Tanks: New Organizational Actors in a Changing Swedish Civil Society

2019

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Policy institutes, or ''think tanks'', are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our societies. In this article, we conceptualize think tanks explicitly as a civil society phenomenon, linking the proliferation of this relatively new type of actor to the transformation of civil society structures and of systems of interest representation. Using the case of Sweden as an illustration, we argue that the recent decades' rise of think tanks in institutional settings outside of the USA can only be understood if we take into account the particular features and institutional policy access opportunities of the domestic civil society in each national case, and that think tanks should be analytically understood as the allies of, rather than competitors to, the older, established forces in civil society.

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Section: Civil Society and Policy-making-a Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Think Tanks: New Organizational Actors in a Changing Swedish Civil Society

2019

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“…Our findings indicate that the recent marketisation and penal populism trends, which are prevalent in certain Western industrialised countries, can significantly curb opportunities for some VCOs to pursue their value‐based missions and attain change in the criminal justice system. In other contexts less influenced by neoliberalism and penal populism, VCOs may have more opportunities to use their agency and function as a VCO, producing, articulating, disseminating, and defending values, ideas, and ideology (Reuter, Wijkström and Mayer , p.77). In this study, the ability to do this appeared to be largely thanks to access to grants rather than contract funding, which enabled KRITS to incorporate new working practices into the criminal justice system.…”

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“…In this space, VCOs function as interest representatives, service and support providers, and creators of social integration (Freise and Hallman ). One conceptualisation of VCOs understands them as agents whose fundamental role ‘is to produce, articulate, disseminate and defend values, ideas and ideology with the aim of attaining normative change’ (Reuter, Wijkström and Mayer , p.77). Although this perspective has not been used in the existing penal voluntary sector literature explicitly, it offers one way of interpreting the role of VCOs in criminal justice which can be applied to both the Finnish and New Zealand contexts.…”

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Exploring Autonomy in the Finnish and New Zealand Penal Voluntary Sectors: The Relevance of Marketisation and Criminal Justice Policy Environments in Two Penal Voluntary Sector Organisations

Helminen

Mills

2019

Howard J Crime Justice

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Our understanding of the structural factors shaping the agency of penal voluntary organisations in different jurisdictions is limited. This article explores how political, economic, and ideological factors in the voluntary and criminal justice sectors have affected two voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) which work with offenders -Finland's KRITS and New Zealand's NZPARS -and their ability to pursue their charitable goals and values. Based on qualitative thematic documentary analysis, our findings indicate that while marketisation and the populist penal policy environment contributed to the downfall of NZPARS, KRITS has been able to pursue its value-based mission of introducing unique elements to the criminal justice system, in spite of also experiencing pressures of marketisation. By contrasting these accounts it is clear that the current structures in New Zealand society have not supported the autonomy of all penal voluntary sector organisations, adding to the challenges of reforming the criminal justice system.

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“…In nonprofit governance terms this line of research is relevant (but so far underdeveloped) for exploring at least two sets of questions. The first relates to the role of NPOs (and their internal governance systems) in wider (societal) governance systems in which the nonprofit actor takes part (Reuter et al, 2014).…”

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Deepening and broadening the field: introduction to Research Handbook on Nonprofit Governance

Donnelly-Cox¹

2021

Research Handbook on Nonprofit Governance

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Governance has in many respects become the new management. Just as management succeeded administration from the 1960s onwards (Grey, 1999), so governance has replaced management as the label for steering practices and the distribution of authority in organizations, nation states, politics and various other subfields of society. In this introductory chapter, we will weave the contributions to this Handbook together with prior research into the governance 'story' of the 2020s, and thereby discuss the ways in which the Research Handbook on Nonprofit Governance covers and advances the field.We structure this chapter as follows. First, we review governance definitions and the development of the nonprofit governance concept. Then we map the field of nonprofit governance through a focus on organizing contexts, environmental contexts and constituencies, and we consider some of the governance practices that emerge within them. Next, we examine the governance theory-practice nexus by sketching out the theoretical perspectives considered by the Handbook's contributors. We conclude by indicating some of the lacunae that remain.

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Who Calls the Shots? The Real Normative Power of Civil Society

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Think Tanks: New Organizational Actors in a Changing Swedish Civil Society

Think Tanks: New Organizational Actors in a Changing Swedish Civil Society

Exploring Autonomy in the Finnish and New Zealand Penal Voluntary Sectors: The Relevance of Marketisation and Criminal Justice Policy Environments in Two Penal Voluntary Sector Organisations

Deepening and broadening the field: introduction to Research Handbook on Nonprofit Governance

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