Governing Through Patronage: The Rise of NGOs and the Fall of Civil Society in Palestine and Morocco

This article examines foreign aid and government funding to NGOs as forms of patronage and explores the impact of such funding on the nature and role of civil society. Using qualitative research from Palestine and Morocco, we argue that patronage transforms NGOs into apparatuses of governing. NGOs b...

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Published in:	Voluntas (Manchester, England) Vol. 29; no. 5; pp. 1044 - 1054
Main Authors:	Atia, Mona, Herrold, Catherine E.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer Science+Business Media, LLC (Springer) 01.10.2018 Springer US Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Accountability Bureaucracy Bureaucratization Change agents Civil society Foreign aid Government spending NGOs Nongovernmental organizations Occupational roles Original Paper Patronage Patrons Political change Political Science Power Professionalization Qualitative research Social change Social Policy Social Sciences Transformation Morocco Civil society Morocco Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO) Patronage Governing Palestine
ISSN:	0957-8765, 1573-7888
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