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Advocacy organizations and collective action /
"Advocacy organizations are viewed as actors motivated primarily by principled beliefs. This volume outlines a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations, proposing a model of NGOs as collective actors that seek to fulfil normative concerns and instrumental incentives, face collective a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Advocacy organizations and collective action: an introduction
- Institutional emergence and boundaries
- Organizational structures
- Agency conflicts and accountability
- References
- Part 1 The institutional environment and advocacy organizations
- 2 The price of advocacy: mobilization and maintenance in advocacy organizations
- Collective action and advocacy organizations
- Advocacy organization formation
- Advocacy organization development
- Scenic Hudson and the origins of the NRDC
- Finding common ground
- Building an organization
- Litigation and the environment
- Conclusion
- References
- 3 Acting in good faith: an economic approach to religious organizations as advocacy groups
- The economics of religion
- Empirical illustrations
- Conclusion: Lessons from the economics of religion
- References
- 4 Institutional environment and the organization of advocacy NGOs in the OECD
- The institutional affinities of advocacy organizations
- National legislation and international advocacy organizations8217; collective action problem
- Advocacy organizations8217; institutional environment in the OECD
- Conclusions
- References
- Part 2 Advocacy tactics and strategies
- 5 The market for human rights
- Caveats
- The moral theory
- Anomalies
- The human rights market
- Costs of support and the supply of causes
- Market structure and the demand for causes
- Amnesty International and the demand for human rights
- Demand reshaping supply
- Conclusion
- References
- 6 Brand identity and the tactical repertoires of advocacy organizations
- The relationship between brands and tactics
- Differentiation: insider versus outsider tactics
- Analyzing advocacy organization tactics
- Findings
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Organizations
- References
- 7 Shopping around: environmental organizations and the search for policy venues
- Venues, arenas, and jurisdictions
- The Atlantic States Legal Foundation: no longer 8220;Atlantic8221; or 8220;legal8221;
- The Partnership for Onondaga Creek: one issue, multiple targets
- Case discussion
- Models of venue-shopping
- Advocacy organizations and venue-shopping
- Conclusion
- References
- Part 3 International advocacy and market structures
- 8 The political economy of transnational action among international NGOs
- A 8220;civil8221; global society? Organizational density and marketization
- Organizational environments, contracting and NGO incentives
- Competitive bidding and refugee relief in Goma
- Multiple principals and Bosnia8217;s POWs
- Conclusion
- References
- 9 Advocacy organizations, networks, and the firm analogy
- The transnational NGO study
- TNGOs and advocacy
- Production functions, theories of the firm, and organizational boundaries
- Conclusions
- References
- 10 Shaping civic advocacy: international and domestic policies toward Russia8217;s NGO sector
- NGO emergence
- Yeltsin8217;s Russia: NGOs8217; first decade
- The Putin presidency
- Conclusion
- References
- Interviews
- Part 4 Toward a new research program
- 11 Rethinking advocacy organizations?