The Charity Law's Impact On Charitable Organizations In China From The Perspective Of Social Capital Theory

On March 16,2016,at the fourth session of the National People's Congress,the delegates voted on the adoption of the Charity Law of People's Republic of China(Draft),the long-awaited charity law was finally available,caused widespread concern of the community and a big discussion on China charity.The Charity Law involves whip-round,charitable donations,charitable trusts,charitable property,charitable services,information disclosure of charity,promotion measures for charity,supervision and management,legal liability and other provisions.What's the impact on Charitable Organizations of all of the provisions?Whether the legal dilemma,the crisis of trust and the low participation of Charitable Organizations can be alleviated or even broken down under the Charity Law?In order to truly sort out the Charity Law's impact,and offer provide effective recommendations for the development of charitable organizations,we should from the point of view of charity organizations to look at these issues.Putnam believes that social capital is the characteristics of social organization,including institutional norms,trust and network,and these factors can improve social efficiency by promoting cooperation.This paper selects the typical types of charitable organizations in Wuhan as the research object,adopts the method of empirical interview,and collects the first-hand information from charitable organizations,then use the social capital theory as the analysis tool to explore the impact of Charity Law on charitable organizations from the dimensions of institutional norms,charitable trust,charitable participation network.Because the emergence and development of charity organizations based on certain social capital,as the institutional norm to influence and guide the charitable organizations,Charity Law is one of the social capital of charitable organizations itself.A comprehensive system of norms will solve many problems,such as the legal dilemma and internal management issues.This will enhance the public's trust in charitable organizations,so that more and more individuals,organizations are willing to participate in the charity network,while bringing more charitable cooperation to promote the development of charity.That is to say,there are Mutual influences among institutional norms,trust and networks.Charity Law as a new law,we also found some defects from the empirical study,including inadequate supporting measures,limitations to promote charitable trust of the public and insufficient tax preference.This paper puts forward some suggestions from the perspective of social capital for the further development of charitable organizations in China under the framework of the charity law:on the one hand,Chinese government needs to improve the top-level system design and logistics support,such as making policies in every detail to support the long-term development of charitable organizations,strengthening the evaluation to enhance the credibility of charitable organizations and implementing tax incentives to improve the participation of the public.On the other hand,charitable organization needs to grab this chance to strengthen itself,such as reconstructing its own system,improving its credibility and building a wide range of charitable networks.