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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Cambridge, U.K. :
Cambridge University Press ,
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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