Restoring Public Legitimacy to the Nonprofit Sector: A Survey Experiment Using Descriptions of Nonprofit Ownership
Restoring Public Legitimacy to the Nonprofit Sector: A Survey Experiment Using Descriptions of Nonprofit Ownership
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恢复非营利部门的公共合法性：使用非营利所有权描述的调查实验
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2004
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B. Gray
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M. Schlesinger;S. Mitchell;B. Gray
作者认为，美国社会中非营利部门合法性的下降可以追溯到公众对非营利企业的有限理解。在这篇文章中，他们探讨了医疗保健中与所有权相关的期望的性质和相关性。一项新的全国调查文件的数据显示，大多数美国人认为所有权影响医疗保健。然而，大约三分之一的公众不理解所有权;那些对非营利组织没有明显好感的人。对于非营利组织的期望在那些感觉容易受到医疗保健不良结果影响的人中更为积极，但在少数群体中则更为消极。使用纳入调查的实验设计，作者证明，有更多的信息，所有权提高非营利组织的业绩预期，但在不同程度上，这取决于解释的内容，性能的特定方面，以及先前的理解水平。
The authors argue that declining legitimacy of the nonprofit sector in American society can be traced to a limited public understanding of nonprofit enterprise. In this article, they explore the nature and correlates of ownership-related expectations in medical care. Data from a new national survey document that most Americans believe that ownership affects medical care. However, about a third of the public does not understand ownership; those who do not have decidedly less favorable attitudes toward nonprofits. Expectations for nonprofits are more positive among those who feel vulnerable to bad outcomes in medical care, but are substantially more negative among minority groups. Using an experimental design incorporated into the survey, the authors demonstrate that having additional information about ownership improves expectations about nonprofit performance but to varying degrees, depending on the content of the explanation, the particular dimension of performance, and the level of prior understanding.