Local human rights organizations (LHROs) are crucial allies in international efforts to promote human rights. Without support from organized civil society, efforts by transnational human rights reformers will have little effect. Despite their importance, we have little systematic information on...

Why do levels of public trust in NGOs vary across post-communist countries? How does media independence influence these trust levels? The authors begin from the premise that citizens develop trust in NGOs when they believe that NGOs function according to their normative expectations and they...

This paper examines how information problems can cause agency slippages and lead to governance failures in nonprofits. Drawing on the principal-agent literature, we provide a theoretical account of an institutional mechanism, namely voluntary regulation programs, to mitigate such slippages....