Abstract
Chapter one opens the book by setting the general context of NGOs in China, an authoritarian state and child welfare. It introduces the theme of the book, the politics of crafting accountability and legitimacy in NGOs in China, illustrated through the case of child welfare organisations. It clears the conceptual path by defining accountability and introduces our novel framework of analysis around second-order accountability and the accumulation of stocks of accountability capital. It outlines key research questions around how NGOs build accountability and legitimacy, the hierarchies of accountability this leads to and the politics of these processes. It explains why we choose China and child welfare groups to explore this. It describes the methods and structure of the book.
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Howell, J., Shang, X., Fisher, K.R. (2019). Introduction. In: NGOs and Accountability in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90221-0_1
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