A red flag for public goods? The correlates of civil society restrictions

Journal
Governance
ISSN
0952-1895
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2025
Author(s)
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Mitchell, Neil
;
Bakke, Kristin
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Abstract
Governments increasingly restrict civil society organizations (CSOs). Different theories converge on the expectation that CSOs are important for public goods. A largely unexplored implication is that increased restrictions on CSOs will signal the under-delivery of public goods. Using data on government-imposed restrictions on CSOs for a global sample of countries, we test this implication. Controlling for unobserved crosscountry heterogeneity, temporal shocks, and con-This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yes
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
38
Number
2
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