TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heinzel, Mirko
A1  - Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias
T1  - Harmful side effects
T2  - British journal of political science
N2  - Governments have increasingly adopted laws restricting the activities of international non-governmental organizations INGOs within their borders. Such laws are often intended to curb the ability of critical INGOs to discover and communicate government failures and abuses to domestic and international audiences. They can also have the unintended effect of reducing the presence and activities of INGOs working on health issues, and depriving local health workers and organizations of access to resources, knowledge and other forms of support. This study assesses whether legislative restrictions on INGOs are associated with fewer health INGOs in a wide range of countries and with the ability of those countries to mitigate disability-adjusted life years lost because of twenty-one disease categories between 1993 and 2017. The findings indicate that restrictive legislation hampered efforts by civil society to lighten the global burden of disease and had adverse side effects on the health of citizens worldwide.
KW  - international non-governmental organizations
KW  - INGOs
KW  - restrictions to civil society
KW  - closing civic space
KW  - authoritarianism
KW  - health services
KW  - global health
KW  - burden of disease
KW  - disability-adjusted life years
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63613
SN  - 0007-1234
SN  - 1469-2112
VL  - 53
IS  - 4
SP  - 1293
EP  - 1310
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -