Research on nonprofit advocacy has grown in recent years, and many nonprofit organizations have expanded and refined their efforts to influence public policies in ways they believe will benefit society. Despite the growing body of literature on nonprofit advocacy, there is substantial room for development on questions related to public perceptions of nonprofit advocacy activities. Utilizing an experimental design, we examine the ways in which the involvement of a nonprofit organization in the policy process can shift public opinion regarding a specific policy proposal. We also explore how these perceptions vary when we introduce political conflict that questions the effectiveness of the proposed policy. We find that in the absence of political controversy, the involvement of nonprofits in the policy process can significantly increase positive perceptions, relative to the control condition in which there is no mention on nonprofit involvement. However, we also find that the ways in which nonprofit involvement could boost support for a policy proposal may not hold when there is conflict over the policy in question.

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探索公众对非营利政策倡导的看法

近年来，有关非营利组织倡导的研究不断增长，许多非营利组织都扩大并完善了他们以认为对社会有利的方式来影响公共政策的努力。尽管有关非营利性倡导活动的文献越来越多，但在与公众对非营利性倡导活动的看法有关的问题上仍有很大的发展空间。通过实验设计，我们研究了非营利组织在政策制定过程中的参与可以如何改变公众对特定政策建议的看法。当我们引入对拟议政策的有效性提出质疑的政治冲突时，我们还将探讨这些看法如何变化。我们发现，在没有政治争议的情况下，相对于没有提及非营利组织参与的控制条件，非营利组织参与政策制定过程可以显着提高积极认识。但是，我们还发现，当有关政策存在冲突时，非营利组织参与可以增加对政策建议的支持的方式可能不成立。