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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gugerty, Mary Kay (Author), Prakash, Aseem (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press , c2010
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Advocacy organizations and collective action : an introduction
  • 2. The price of advocacy : mobilization and maintenance in advocacy organizations
  • 3. Acting in good faith : an economic approach to religious organizations as advocacy groups
  • 4. Institutional environment and the organization of advocacy NGOs in the OECD
  • 5. The market for human rights
  • 6. Brand identity and the tactical repertoires of advocacy organizations
  • 7. Shopping around : environmental organizations and the search for policy venues
  • 8. The political economy of transnational action among international NGOs
  • 9. Advocacy organizations, networks, and the firm analogy
  • 10. Shaping civic advocacy : international and domestic policies towards Russia's NGO sector
  • 11. Rethinking advocacy organizations? A critical comment
  • 12. Conclusions and future research : rethinking advocacy organizations