第三次分配中慈善捐赠的经验性探讨

国外慈善捐赠看似微不足道,却对于西方社会的稳态定型起到巨大的作用.文章分析了国内慈善捐赠中所存在的问题,针对社会转型期的中国实际,提出了一些关于加强第三领域管理的建设性意见和引领性举措.     

NGO：人本社区教育的新型组织载体

人本社区教育是社会发展到一定历史阶段人们对社区教育的一种更高追求。NGO蓬勃发展的时代机遇、自下而上的网络组织形式、利他助人的服务理念、扶弱济困的价值取向与人本社区教育价值观耦合,成为践行人本社区教育的新型组织载体。     

资源依赖视角中的NGO与政府关系——以Y机构“一个社工多个婆婆”现象为例

本文基于资源依赖理论的主要思想,从对Y机构"一个社工多个婆婆"现象的分析出发,探讨Y机构与政府之间的依赖关系与不对等权力产生的原因,并提出转变这一关系现状的行动策略:资源转化、资源拓展与资源控制。     

Challenges in framing women's rights as human rights at the domestic level: A case study of NGOs in the post-Soviet countries

This case study examines framing as an essential communication strategy used by women's rights NGOs at international and domestic levels. The article uses a theoretical framework of transnational advocacy networks, originally developed by political scientists Keck and Sikkink (1998), to demonstrate the importance of public relations’ efforts in political communication campaigns of women's rights NGOs around the world. Supported by the United Nations, these NGOs play an important role in democracy building and contribute to women's empowerment efforts. However, an examination of communication strategies used by these NGOs to help implement the Platform for Action—the UN-promoted agenda for women's empowerment—showed that the existing frame of women's rights as human rights may not be successful in all contexts. This study argues that at the domestic level the issue of women's rights needs to be presented in greater detail than the current human rights frame allows it to be.     

South African NGOs and the public sphere: between popular movements and partnerships for development

This article examines the widespread notion that post‐apartheid democracy can be deepened and civil society strengthened by NGO activities in the sphere of public debate and participation. I focus on a number of interrelated processes which I argue may compromise NGOs' ability to expand the public sphere: first, donors' overwhelming focus on NGOs as the sole representative of civil society may contribute to a homogenous and institutionalised public sphere; second, the tendency for NGOs to be drawn into partnerships with government bodies and corporate sponsors casts doubt on their ability to open up spaces for critical public debate. By directing attention to popular movements as potentially offering a site for the production of critique, NGOs' relationships to such movements are examined. It is argued that attention must be paid to the processes of NGO‐isation and reformism by which NGOs themselves come to define what civil society should be and may consequently contain counterpublic spheres.     

Sacrificing Women: A Study of Ritualized Practices among Women Volunteers in India

This study addresses issues related to inequality formation and reproduction, especially in regard to gender dynamics operating in a non-western society. Grounded in a post-colonial understanding of urban educated upper and middle class women NGO volunteers in contemporary India, it analyzes how they negotiate new approaches to challenge existing traditional gender roles, yet in critical ways contribute to their reproduction, particularly the traditional concept of ideal Indian womanhood. Employing structural ritualization theory we examine how ritualized symbolic practices related to the traditional concepts of caretaking, sacrifice, and the concept of natural sexual differences continue to be emphasized in a generation confronted with conflicting expectations about modern women’s roles. Twenty-one testimonies provide the major source of evidence along with data gathered through participant observation. This research enhances our understanding of the power of rituals and how they can continue to shape the cognitions and activities of actors.

Making sense of leaving care: The contribution of Bridges model of transition to understanding the psycho-social process

This paper is based on research into the transition of young people leaving public care in Romania. Using this specific country example, the paper aims to contribute to present understandings of the psycho-social transition of young people from care to independent living by introducing the use of Bridges (2002) to build on existing theories and literature. The research discussed involved mixed methods design and was implemented in three phases: semi-structured interviews with 34 care leavers, focus groups with 32 professionals, and a professional-service user working group. The overall findings confirmed that young people experience two different, but interconnected transitions - social and psychological - which take place at different paces. A number of theoretical perspectives are explored to make sense of this transition including attachment theory, focal theory and identity. In addition, a new model for understanding the complex process of transitions was adapted from Bridges (2002) to capture the clear complexity of transition which the findings demonstrated in terms of their psycho-social transition. The paper concludes with messages for leaving and after care services with an emphasis on managing the psycho-social transition from care to independent living.     

在资源与制度之间：农民工草根NGO的生存策略——以珠三角农民工维权NGO为例

摘要：观察中国民间社会的发展,对草根组织的研究必不可少。近十年来,珠江三角洲严峻的劳权状况和政府、工会的缺位,催生出一批草根性农民工维权NGO。在中国民间非政府组织整体生存环境不佳的大背景下,由于涉及“劳权”、“人权”等的敏感议题,农民工维权NGO的发展举步维艰。面对制度和资源的双重制约,草根NGO为了生存,采取了一系列策略。它们的生存状况与所持的政治意识形态和维权理念密切相关;为了补充合法性资源,草根组织不得不着眼于制度外的道义正当性,以期获得社会的支持以及政府的默认;草根组织试图通过建立顾问委员会、理事会等方式获得知识精英的背书,有的还诉诸与政府官员的个人联系。新近出现的自体制内组建的NGO为研究珠三角农民工维权NGO提供了新素材。     

WTO面临的困境探析

WTO运行近8年,成功中伴随着困境。WTO面临的困境既有外部因素带来的压力又有其内部职能在具体运行中遭遇的困难。前者主要体现在发展中国家不能有效参与WTO的决策、非政府组织积极要求参与WTO的有关事务及区域主义盛行给WTO带来的冲击;后者主要表现在WTO行使谈判、实施协议、解决纠纷等职能时面临的种种困境。WTO面临的内外困境实际上是国际社会面临的一些主要问题在国际贸易关系中的表现,因此,WTO一时无法摆脱其困境,同时,多哈回合谈判虽已启动,但其谈判前景并不乐观。      

公共服务过程中非政府组织与政府的互动关系研究

摘要(Abstract):公共服务过程包括社会需求和意志的表达、政府决策和组织安排、公共服务的直接提供和公共服务的问责。由于政府、市场和非政府组织(NGO)具有各自不同的特性,在公共服务过程中,需要NGO与政府的互动。但是因为政府观念转变缓慢、NGO能力缺失和历史经验教训导致的互信不足,使得二者在公共服务过程中的互动存在诸多问题,因此政府急需转变观念,NGO应加强自身能力,促进公共服务过程中NGO与政府的互动。