Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action
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- Editors:
- Aseem Prakash, University of Washington
- Mary Kay Gugerty, University of Washington
- Date Published: November 2010
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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 action problems, and compete as well as collaborate with other advocacy actors. The analogy of the firm is a useful way of studying advocacy actors because individuals, via advocacy NGOs, make choices which are analytically similar to those that shareholders make in the context of firms. The authors view advocacy NGOs as special types of firms that make strategic choices in policy markets which, along with creating public goods, support organizational survival, visibility, and growth. Advocacy NGOs' strategy can therefore be understood as a response to opportunities to supply distinct advocacy products to well-defined constituencies, as well as a response to normative or principled concerns.
Read more- Proposes a novel analytical approach to the study of advocacy organizations which treats them as 'firms' operating in policy markets, bringing more analytical clarity to how NGOs emerge, act and relate to each other
- Integrates the study of advocacy into the broader research program on collective action
- Demonstrates how advocacy NGOs and firms share many commonalities
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'This book brings together a top-flight team of scholars to address the factors that help shape the advocacy activities of international NGOs. Complementing previous research but starting from a different perspective than most, the chapters show that leaders of NGOs must establish their organizations' individual identities, maintain their memberships, and worry about survival. Advocacy strategies are influenced, then, by these concerns as well as by the moral convictions of their members. An important contribution sure to inform as well as provoke.' Frank R. Baumgartner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
See more reviews'Prakash and Gugerty have assembled an unusually innovative and imaginative set of essays on interest group advocacy. This important collection advances the field with its emphasis on organizational behavior.' Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts University
'Rather than characterizing advocacy organizations by their distinctive ideals and the intentions of their members, the contributors to this important new volume ask what can be learned by exploring the similarities with profit-oriented firms and collective action projects. The result is a collection of rich, theoretically-engaged case studies that significantly advance our understanding of the structure and strategies of advocacy organizations while generating compelling new questions about norms and shared values.' Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago, and author of The People's Lobby
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- Date Published: November 2010
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511911262
- contains: 5 b/w illus. 7 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction:
1. Advocacy organization and collective action: an introduction Aseem Prakash and Mary Kay Gugerty
Part I. The Institutional Environment and Advocacy Organizations:
2. The price of advocacy: mobilization and maintenance in advocacy organizations McGee Young
3. Acting in good faith: an economic approach to religious organizations as advocacy groups Anthony J. Gill and Steven J. Pfaff
4. Institutional environment and the organization of advocacy NGOs in the OECD Elizabeth A. Bloodgood
Part II. Advocacy Tactics and Strategies:
5. The market for human rights Clifford Bob
6. Brand identity and the tactical repertoires of advocacy organizations Maryann Barakso
7. Shopping around: environmental organizations and the search for policy venues Sarah B. Pralle
Part III. International Advocacy and Market Structures:
8. The political economy of transnational action among international NGOs Alexander Cooley and James Ron
9. Advocacy organizations, networks, and the firm analogy Jesse D. Lecy, George E. Mitchell and Hans Peter Schmitz
10. Shaping civic advocacy: international and domestic policies towards Russia's NGO Sarah L. Henderson
Part IV. Towards a New Research Program:
11. Rethinking advocacy organizations? A critical comment Thomas Risse
12. Conclusions and future research: rethinking advocacy organizations Mary Kay Gugerty and Aseem Prakash.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Advanced Policy Practice with Organizations and Communities
- Government and Politics of the Middle East
- NGOs in World Politics
- NGOs, Civil Society, and Civic Engagement in Comparative Perspective
- Public Relations and Social Advocacy
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