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This article aims to contribute to the long-standing discussion about nonprofit organizations' (NPOs) dependence on public funding and its consequences on their advocacy role in modern societies. Drawing on resource dependence theory and data from a quantitative survey, the study investigates the impact of public funding and its extent on nonprofit engagement in advocacy. Traditionally, scholars have cautioned that NPOs reliant on public sources will hesitate to pursue political objectives and to engage in advocacy work. Yet, empirical findings are strikingly inconsistent. One of the reasons for these ambiguous findings may be the way advocacy is measured. To address this issue, we apply two different approaches to evaluate NPO engagement. Both sets of findings from our multivariate analyses of Austrian NPOs suggest that public funding does not have a negative impact on advocacy.

Matthias Neumayr ist als Richter und Wissenschaftler, aber auch als Mentor für den juristischen Nachwuchs national wie international wohlbekannt und hochgeschätzt. Ihm ist nun anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags eine Festschrift monumentalen Ausmaßes gewidmet, die Vielfalt seines Wissens in Umfang und Breite widerspiegelt. Die Autor:innen behandeln Themen aus allen Forschungsgebieten und bestätigen damit die Fülle Matthias Neumayrs fachlichen Wirkens. 239 erstklassige Beiträge von 268 hochkarätigen Autor:innen aus Justiz, Wissenschaft und Praxis aus mehr als 14 unterschiedlichen Rechtsgebieten

Although civil societies in Central and Eastern Europe are often portrayed as similar, united by a shared communist past, they have developed along increasingly divergent trajectories over the past three decades. This article investigates the current state of civil society in the region and the role the institutional context plays in it. Drawing on historical institutionalism and the process of European integration, we classify the 14 countries under investigation into three distinct groups and analyze data from a survey of more than 350 local civil society experts. We find that, together with domestic governments, international donors and the EU are perceived as the most influential institutional actors for civil society organizations. Their respective influences, however, depend largely on a country's stage in the EU accession process. Overall, the study provides a differentiated mapping of civil society in this region and a better understanding of how the institutional context relates to a Country's civil society.