Advocacy under Xi: NPO Strategies to Influence Policy Change

Teets Jessica () and Almen Oscar ()
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Teets Jessica: Department of Political Science, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753-6203, USA
Almen Oscar: Department of Government, Uppsala University, Uppsala75120, Sweden

Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 10

Abstract: Under the Hu-Wen administration, scholars analyzed how political opportunity structures (POS) affect the policy influence of NPOs in China, and found that the opportunity structure was relatively more open, especially for NPOs using personal connections. In this article, we focus on changes in the opportunity structure since Xi Jinping came to power after 2012, and find that the more closed political climate has had important consequences for NPO policy advocacy. We identify three strategies that NPOs have used to advocate, such as using the law, media framing, and establishing expert status. While these strategies are not novel, we argue that the weighting has shifted in terms of what leads to success.

Keywords: NPO; NGO; political opportunity structure; civil society (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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