Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maintaining registration and tax benefits: Consequences for professionalisation of voluntary membership organisations in Norway and the UK
Author
Summary, in English
This article investigates how regulation related to maintaining state registration and tax beneficial status affects professionalisation, covering paid staff and volunteers with specialist skills, of political parties, advocacy groups and service providing organisations. The article fills a gap in the literature which until now has been mainly concerned with the influence of state funding on professionalisation. To study the consequences of first-time exposure to reporting requirements, eight organisations in two contrasting regulatory regimes, UK and Norway are analysed, on the basis of extensive documents and a series of semi-structured interviews with different organisational actors. The study finds that organisations – irrespective of type - exposed to constraining regulation adjust to reporting requirements through recruitment of specialised personnel. Organisations’ financial capacity determines whether the organisation professionalises by taking on specialist volunteers or by taking on paid staff. The study demonstrates the pervasive impact of regulation on organisational maintenance of voluntary membership organisations in contemporary democracies.
Department/s
- Department of Political Science
Publishing year
2020-04-20
Language
English
Pages
97-119
Publication/Series
Journal of Civil Society
Volume
16
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Routledge
Topic
- Political Science
Keywords
- Regulation
- professionalisation
- advocacy groups
- parties
- service providers
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1744-8689