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。然而现在，这些组织越来越多地面临政治镇压，并且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、使命和总数？本次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其工具性工作得以继续提供了重要的见解。本项目使用不同的定量和因果方法，调查了不同的政治、经济、文化和生态威胁如何影响非政府组织的使命和战略，沿着它们的总体规模。为此，本研究开发了两种类型的原始数据。第一个数据集是基于1980年至2022年期间来自172个国家的约10，000个少数群体服务非政府组织的数据集。该数据集跟踪每个非政府组织随时间推移的成立率和使命声明。 第二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如何在不同类型的潜在威胁中波动战略。总之，这些数据集有能力解锁对非政府组织的文化，需求，战略和运作的各种见解，甚至超出了目前的提案。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，而且为有需要的人提供了一种新的服务少数群体组织的资源。该奖项反映了NSF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.