Organizations in a Post-Liberal World: A Cross-National Investigation into the Changing Scales, Strategies, and Missions of NGOs

该项目旨在了解非政府组织（ngo）如何在世界各地持续的威胁中运作。在20世纪，非政府组织在提供社会服务、倡导边缘化社区以及作为国家治理的合作伙伴方面发挥了重要作用。但是，现在这些组织日益面临政治压迫，获得维持其工作的必要资源的机会减少。这些新的挑战是如何改变非政府组织的：它们的战略、使命和总体数量？这项调查的结果为非政府组织如何应对这一时刻以及外部支持者如何确保他们的工具性工作继续下去提供了重要的见解。本项目采用不同的定量和因果方法，研究不同的政治、经济、文化和生态威胁如何影响非政府组织的使命和战略，以及它们的总体规模。为此，本研究开发了两种类型的原始数据。第一个是建立在1980年至2022年期间来自172个国家的大约10,000个为少数民族服务的非政府组织的先前组装的数据集上。这个数据集追踪了每个非政府组织在一段时间内的成立率和使命宣言。第二个组成部分是对每个非政府组织进行的原始调查。这项调查询问组织领导者，在不同类型的潜在威胁中，战略是如何波动的。总之，这些数据集有能力解开对非政府组织文化、需求、战略和运作的各种见解，甚至超越当前的建议。这项研究不仅推进了对组织在前所未有的威胁时期如何运作的理论理解，而且为那些有需要的人提供了一个新的资源，即为少数群体服务的组织。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to understand how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operate amidst on-going threats around the world. Over the 20th century, NGOs became instrumental in providing social services, advocating for marginalized communities, and working as partners in state governance. Now, however, these organizations are increasingly confronted with political repression and decreased access to necessary resources that sustain their work. How are these new challenges are transforming NGOs: their strategies, missions, and their overall numbers? Findings from this investigation offer important insights into how NGOs are navigating this moment and how external supporters can ensure their instrumental work continues.This project investigates how different political, economic, cultural, and ecological threats influence the missions and strategies of NGOs, along with their overall scale, using different quantitative and causal methods. To do so, this study develops two types of original data. The first builds on a previously assembled dataset of roughly 10,000 minority-serving NGOs from 172 countries between 1980-2022. This dataset tracks the founding rates and mission statements of each NGO over time. The second component is an original survey administered to each NGO. This survey asks organizational leaders how strategies have fluctuated amidst different types of potential threats. Together, these datasets have the ability to unlock a variety of insights into the cultures, needs, strategies, and operations of NGOs, even beyond the current proposal. This research not only advance theoretical understandings of how organizations operate during a period of unprecedented threat but contributes a new resource of minority-serving organizations accessible to those in need.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.