碩士 / 國立臺灣大學 / 政治學研究所 / 102 / In recent years, research interest toward faith-based nonprofit organizations increase gradually in both domestic and international academic circles. In addition, not only that nonprofit organizations cooperate with the government both publicly and privately, engaging in initiation both in policy and ideology, an important factor of the NPO utility, is also a vital part in the NPO-government relationship. This research encompasses the following four research goals and questions: 1. To investigate the policy advocacy experience, advocacy ideas and motives, the formulation of advocacy projects, the method of advocacy and their employment of advocacy of strategies of domestic Christian faith-based nonprofit organizations. 2. To explore the advocacy experience, motives, , the method of advocacy and their employment of advocacy of strategies of Christian organizations. 3. To address the advocacy modes of Christian faith-based nonprofit organizations and Christian organizations, to compare advocacy experience and to understand reasons and meaning of the differences between advocacy experience and motives of both parties. 4. To analyze the traits, discrepancies and origin of the advocacy of domestic Christian faith-based nonprofit organizations.
The research proposes the idea of ‘faith density’ and distinguishes the nature of faith-based nonprofit organizations and religious organizations, according to which the framework of analysis is established for this research. Based on the framework three faith-based nonprofit organizations are interviewed, The Garden of Hope Foundation, Eden Social Welfare Foundation, and Operation Dawn, which all differ in their faith density and scale. In addition, a faith organization, The Zion Church of New Testament, is also interviewed in comparison with faith-based nonprofit organizations, highlighting the initiation traits of faith-based nonprofit organizations. Through examination of acquired data and literature, the research found the results as follows: 1. The initiation ideas of faith-based nonprofit organizations include faith factors and professional social work ideas. In the more developed faith-based nonprofit organizations, the executive level powers initiation. Larger faith-based nonprofit organizations highlight the importance of mass media and public relations. However, the environmental changes in the media circle have increased the difficulties of initiation through mass media. In addition, larger faith-based nonprofit organizations encounter the dilemma of whether to cooperate with the government or to engage in initiation. 2. Religious organizations apply oracles or prophecies as one of the driving factors of advocacy, engaging in the Gandhi-like passive inaction as means of advocacy. 3. Through comparison of the advocacy experience of faith-based nonprofit organizations and religious organizations, the researcher found that a. The advocacy demands originate from intention to actively reform the society in faith-based nonprofit organizations, but intention to isolate from the society in religious organizations. b. Organizations with higher faith density are more likely to confront external obstructs when engaged in policy advocacy than those with lower faith density.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/102NTU05227012 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Mu-Yi Li, 李慕義 |
| Contributors | Way Sun, 孫煒 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 249 |
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