Trading Voice for Viability? The Impact of Marketization on Nonprofits' Critical Voice
基于三个福利国家779个非营利组织的跨国调查数据，研究市场化如何导致非营利组织放弃对资助政府的批评，发现资源竞争、产出控制和商业式员工招募会削弱其倡导功能。
ABSTRACT Propelled by the New Public Management reforms, the infusion of market values in the public‐nonprofit interface is argued to have increased nonprofit organizations' (NPOs) capacity to influence public policy through increased access to government, yet often at the cost of abandoning their critical stance toward the said government. Drawing on cross‐country survey data collected from NPOs across three different welfare states (N = 779), this study examines to what extent key aspects of nonprofit marketization are associated with NPOs refraining from criticizing their funding government. Corroborating the critical nonprofit marketization literature, we find that compromised advocacy goes hand in hand with high(er) levels of resource competition, output‐based public control, and recruitment of business‐like staff. These results add to a growing body of evidence of a so‐called closing or shrinking space for NPOs across different welfare state regimes.