Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action

Doughty, Howard A.

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“…Second, specialization can increase the credibility of small NGOs through costly commitments and expertise. Although early research emphasized NGOs as principled actors (Keck and Sikkink 1998;Nadelmann 1990), recent research shows that principles alone do not guarantee credibility (Gourevitch et al 2012;Prakash and Gugerty 2010). In order to ensure credibility, leading NGOs to use various accountability platforms (e.g., Accountability Now!)…”

Section: Theory Of Small Ngo Influencementioning

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Small NGOs and Agenda-Setting in Global Conservation Governance: The Case of Pangolin Conservation

Shibaike¹

2022

Global Environmental Politics

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The study of global environmental governance suggests that agenda-setting power is concentrated in a handful of high-profile, leading nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The recent rise of interest in pangolin conservation constitutes a deviant case in this theoretical tradition. In order to explain the puzzle, I introduce a new theory of small NGO influence and illustrate the mechanisms through the case study of pangolin conservation. Based on in-depth interviews with conservation NGOs, I show how small NGOs raised the salience of pangolin trafficking in global conservation governance by appealing to the shared values of the people who are highly interested in conservation. Moreover, the targeting of traditional Chinese medicine as the driver of pangolin extinction, while unintentionally, helped raise the salience of pangolin trafficking by leveraging the rise of anti-Chinese sentiment in the Global North. Finally, small NGOs were able to use their expertise to guide leading NGOs and state officials in rule-making processes. The findings offer a corrective to the hierarchical view of civil society, calling for more careful evaluations of small NGOs in global conservation governance.

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Section: Theory Of Small Ngo Influencementioning

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Small NGOs and Agenda-Setting in Global Conservation Governance: The Case of Pangolin Conservation

Shibaike¹

2022

Global Environmental Politics

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Voluntary Associations and Social Movements

Walker¹

2013

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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Voluntary associations are “organized, named collectivities in which the majority of participants do not derive their livelihood from their activities in the group” (Knoke & Wood 1981: 8; see also Berry 1977; Walker 1991). The concept of a “voluntary association” has deep roots in the history and thought of American political development. Indeed, as de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America (1838), his celebrated account of his 1831 visit to the US, “no country in the world has made better use of association than the United States and nowhere has that powerful instrument been applied to a wider range of purposes” (de Tocqueville 2004: 215). Indeed, long traditions in US political thought have held that associations are schools of self‐reliant citizenship and democratic practice through which interests and preferences are newly formed rather than predetermined. Associations offer a space outside the bureaucratic and electoral demands of the state, while also remaining relatively insulated from the pecuniary interests and competitive pressures of the market. Scholars of voluntary associations have highlighted the means by which nonpolitical forms of civic organization, such as neighborhood groups, fraternal organizations, and, in a well‐known instance, choral groups, provide not only social integration and the participatory norms, social networks, and feelings of trust that accompany it (Putnam 2000), but they also indirectly socialize participants into active and engaged citizenship.

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Voluntary Associations and Social Movements

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2022

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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Voluntary associations are organized collectivities in which most take part for reasons other than to receive compensation for their participation. The concept of a “voluntary association” has deep roots in the history and thought of American political development. Indeed, as de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America , his celebrated account of his 1831 visit to the US, “no country in the world has made better use of association than the United States and nowhere has that powerful instrument been applied to a wider range of purposes.” Indeed, long traditions in US political thought have held that associations are schools of self‐reliant citizenship and democratic practice through which interests and preferences are newly formed rather than predetermined. Associations offer a space outside the bureaucratic and electoral demands of the state, while also remaining relatively insulated from the pecuniary interests and competitive pressures of the market. Scholars of voluntary associations have highlighted the means by which nonpolitical forms of civic organization, such as neighborhood groups, fraternal organizations, and, in a well‐known instance, choral groups, provide not only social integration and the participatory norms, social networks, and feelings of trust that accompany it, but they also indirectly socialize participants into active and engaged citizenship.

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Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action

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Small NGOs and Agenda-Setting in Global Conservation Governance: The Case of Pangolin Conservation

Small NGOs and Agenda-Setting in Global Conservation Governance: The Case of Pangolin Conservation

Voluntary Associations and Social Movements

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