TY - JOUR
T1 - Penetrating the Dual Realities of Government–Nonprofit Relations in Russia
AU - Salamon, Lester M.
AU - Benevolenski, Vladimir B.
AU - Jakobson, Lev I.
N1 - Funding Information:
Results of the All-Russian Survey of NPOs conducted by Center for Studies of Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector at the NRU HSE in autumn 2012 as part of the monitoring of Russian civil society with the support of the NRU HSE Program of Basic Research. Data collection was accomplished by the “Market-Up” Company. The design of the survey and the instruments were developed by I.V. Mersianova and L.I. Jakobson. The sample consisted of 1005 NPOs; the survey covered 33 Russian regions. The sample was constructed to ensure representative results by legal form and year of registration of the NPOs. Regions were selected on the basis of a typology considering three indicators: urbanization; third sector development index; and economic development index.
Funding Information:
This article was prepared within the framework of a subsidy granted to the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation by the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Global Competitiveness Program. None of the organizations with which the authors are affiliated or that have supported their work bears any responsibility for any errors or views expressed here. That is the authors’ own responsibility. The authors wish to acknowledge the important contributions that Dr. Irina Mersianova, Director, Center for Studies of Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Natalya Ivanova, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Studies of Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector, National Research University Higher School of Economics, and Dr. Stefan Toepler, Director, Center for Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, and Policy, George Mason University School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs made to the development of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University.
PY - 2015/9/8
Y1 - 2015/9/8
N2 - This article seeks to unravel the dual realities represented by the juxtaposition of the recent series of harsh regulatory impositions on Russian nonprofit organizations and the nearly simultaneous enactment of a series of laws and decrees establishing an impressive “tool box” of positive support programs for a large class of the so-called socially oriented Russian nonprofit organizations. To do so, the discussion proceeds in three steps. First, the article documents the considerable scale of the Russian NPO scene as it is visible through the lens of available empirical research. Next, it outlines the key policy measures affecting nonprofit organizations (NPOs) put in place by the Russian government beginning in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st century. Unlike some accounts, however, this one brings into focus both the interesting “tool box” of support programs for NPOs enacted during this period as well as the more restrictive regulatory measures, such as the “foreign agents law,” that also came into force. Finally, the article seeks to unravel the puzzle posed by these apparently competing realities of Russian government policy toward nonprofit organizations by bringing to bear the conceptual lenses that Graham Allison formulated to make sense of the strange series of actions that surrounded the Cuban Missile Crisis a little over 50 years ago.
AB - This article seeks to unravel the dual realities represented by the juxtaposition of the recent series of harsh regulatory impositions on Russian nonprofit organizations and the nearly simultaneous enactment of a series of laws and decrees establishing an impressive “tool box” of positive support programs for a large class of the so-called socially oriented Russian nonprofit organizations. To do so, the discussion proceeds in three steps. First, the article documents the considerable scale of the Russian NPO scene as it is visible through the lens of available empirical research. Next, it outlines the key policy measures affecting nonprofit organizations (NPOs) put in place by the Russian government beginning in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st century. Unlike some accounts, however, this one brings into focus both the interesting “tool box” of support programs for NPOs enacted during this period as well as the more restrictive regulatory measures, such as the “foreign agents law,” that also came into force. Finally, the article seeks to unravel the puzzle posed by these apparently competing realities of Russian government policy toward nonprofit organizations by bringing to bear the conceptual lenses that Graham Allison formulated to make sense of the strange series of actions that surrounded the Cuban Missile Crisis a little over 50 years ago.
KW - Government regulation
KW - Nonprofit sector
KW - Public administration
KW - Public–private partnership
KW - Russia
KW - Social policy
KW - Socially oriented NPO
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U2 - 10.1007/s11266-015-9652-5
DO - 10.1007/s11266-015-9652-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946495767
VL - 26
SP - 2178
EP - 2214
JO - Voluntas
JF - Voluntas
SN - 0957-8765
IS - 6
ER -