Russian NGOs and Their Struggle for Legitimacy in the Face of the ‘Foreign Agents’ Law: Surviving in Small Ecologies
Russian NGOs and Their Struggle for Legitimacy in the Face of the ‘Foreign Agents’ Law: Surviving in Small Ecologies
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DOI：
10.1080/09668136.2018.1444145
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发表时间：
2018-04
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Evelyn Moser;Anna Skripchenko
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作者：
Evelyn Moser;Anna Skripchenko
摘要 本文研究了俄罗斯外资非政府组织（NGO）在2012年所谓的“外国代理人”法面前的生存策略。将非政府组织概念化为自主的社会系统，并借鉴俄罗斯非政府组织在人权保护领域的两个定性案例研究，展示了这些组织如何通过创造性地处理其多样化的环境依赖性来应对国家合法性的丧失。通过改变不同受众的相对重要性并产生新的合法性来源，他们最终在一个不容忍他们的政治政权的整体环境中创造并维持了小型的支持性生态。
Abstract The essay investigates the survival strategies of foreign-funded Russian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the face of the so-called ‘foreign agents’ law of 2012. Conceptualising NGOs as autonomous social systems and drawing on two qualitative case studies of Russian NGOs in the fields of human rights protection, we show how these organisations manage to cope with the state’s withdrawal of legitimacy by creatively handling their diverse environmental dependencies. Through shifting the relative importance of different audiences and generating new sources of legitimacy, they have eventually created and maintained small supportive ecologies within the overall environment of a political regime that does not tolerate them.