Complementary or Supplementary? The Relationship Between Government Size and Nonprofit Sector Size

• Published in: Voluntas (Manchester, England) Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 454 - 469
• Main Authors: Lu, Jiahuan, Xu, Chengxin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Science+Business Media, LLC (Springer) 01.06.2018; Springer US; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Ambiguity; Business government relations; Government; Leverage; Locality; Meta-analysis; Nonprofit organizations; Original Paper; Political Science; Social Policy; Social Sciences; Studies; Nonprofit sector growth; Nonprofit sector size; Government–nonprofit relations; Meta-analysis
• ISSN: 0957-8765; 1573-7888
• DOI: 10.1007/s11266-018-9981-2

Do government activities discourage or leverage nonprofit activities? The extant literature has proposed competing lines of arguments, making the net effect ambiguous. The present study conducts a meta-analysis to synthesize extant studies concerning the relationship between the level of government...