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Nonprofits: A Public Policy Tool for the Promotion of Community Subjective Well-being
- Source :
- J Public Adm Res Theory
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021.
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Abstract
- Looking to supplement common economic indicators, politicians and policymakers are increasingly interested in how to measure and improve the subjective well-being of communities. Theories about nonprofit organizations suggest that they represent a potential policy-amenable lever to increase community subjective well-being. Using longitudinal cross-lagged panel models with IRS and Twitter data, this study explores whether communities with higher numbers of nonprofits per capita exhibit greater subjective well-being in the form of more expressions of positive emotion, engagement, and relationships. We find associations, robust to sample bias concerns, between most types of nonprofit organizations and decreases in negative emotions, negative sentiments about relationships, and disengagement. We also find an association between nonprofit presence and the proportion of words tweeted in a county that indicate engagement. These findings contribute to our theoretical understanding of why nonprofit organizations matter for community-level outcomes and how they should be considered an important public policy lever.
- Subjects :
- Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science
public policy
media_common.quotation_subject
Twitter
Public policy
county
Promotion (rank)
Economic indicator
well-being
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
Per capita
Disengagement theory
Subjective well-being
Association (psychology)
health care economics and organizations
media_common
Sampling bias
Marketing
05 social sciences
text analysis
Articles
nonprofit
0506 political science
Psychology
Social psychology
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14779803 and 10531858
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0aa32bf65d35847bf8f74dea24f3db97