Structurally Excluded? Structural Embeddedness and Civil Society Competition for Funding
Structurally Excluded? Structural Embeddedness and Civil Society Competition for Funding
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结构上被排除？
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2013
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Rebecca Rumbul
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作者：
Rebecca Rumbul
摘要在许多国家，关于政府机构资助和支持民间社会的辩论已成为一个核心和政治化的问题。特别是欧洲国家一直在寻求利用民间社会来实现解决经济和社会劣势的关键超国家政策目标，并实现国家和地区的成果。为此，在区域一级利用欧洲结构性供资，发展和吸引各组织及其受益者。这类活动的一个关键考虑因素是民间社会组织利用现有资金的能力，以及是否存在可能阻碍具有相关专门知识的组织参与的结构性障碍。为了说明这一点，本文探讨了如何民间社会组织在获得资金从2007-2013年欧洲社会基金（ESF）在威尔士的方案，什么，如果有的话，障碍被发现存在于获取这些资金，这意味着在未来的资金背景下，在威尔士的部门。这项工作的更广泛意义在于揭示组织的结构嵌入性如何在决定组织成功获得ESF资金方面发挥重要作用，以及这如何有助于整个部门的分裂。因此，本文的结论是，这是结构嵌入的组织，将是最成功的获得ESF的资金，由于他们的组织特征和他们的制度化的关系，并从国家的收入。相反，其他组织则被证明在结构上受到排斥。
ABSTRACT The debate about the funding and support of civil society by government bodies has become a central and politicized issue in many countries. European states in particular have sought to make use of civil society to deliver key supra-national policy aims of addressing economic and social disadvantage, as well as delivering national and territorial outcomes. To this end European structural funding has been used at a regional level to develop and engage organizations and their beneficiaries. One of the key considerations in such activity is the ability of civil society organizations to engage with the funding available, and whether structural barriers exist that potentially prevent organizations with relevant expertise participating. In order to illustrate this, this article investigates how civil society organizations fared in gaining funds from the 2007–2013 European Social Fund (ESF) programmes in Wales, what, if any, barriers were found to exist in acquiring those funds and what this means for the sector in Wales in the context of future funding. The wider significance of this work is in revealing how the structural embeddedness of organizations plays a significant role in determining organizational success in gaining ESF funds, and how this contributes to a cleavage in the sector as a whole. Thus, this article concludes that it is organizations that are structurally embedded that will be most successful in gaining ESF funds, due to their organizational characteristics and their institutionalized relationships with, and receipts from, the state. Other organizations, conversely, are shown to become structurally excluded.