Exploring the proportionality of representation in interest group mobilization and political access: the case of the Netherlands

Hanegraaff, Marcel; Berkhout, Joost; Ploeg, Jens van der

doi:10.1057/s41269-020-00185-1

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“…This is also supported by studies on the demographics of membership of citizen groups (see, e.g. Hanegraaff et al, 2020a). Furthermore, numerous other studies have highlighted the impact of professionalization on leadership-dominated decision-making and less membership participation and involvement (Albareda, 2020, Halpin, 2006, 2010Klüver and Saurugger, 2013;Maloney, 2015).…”

Section: Theoretical Propositionmentioning

confidence: 68%

Looking for ‘Voice’ in Business and Citizen Groups: Who’s Being Heard?

2021

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Why do some associations provide members with an effective voice whereas others appear to have internal democracy in name only? We theoretically combine population ecology with Hirschman’s strategic response model. This leads us to hypothesize that in dense, competitive organizational environments, the effective alternatives available make it likely that dissatisfied members respond with exit rather than voice. However, in low-dense, monopoly-like situations dissatisfied members demand and receive effective voice options. We further hypothesize that the particular sets of incentives of firms and individuals as members moderates this effect. We assess our argument on the basis of the Comparative Interest Group elite survey among interest group leaders in five European countries and at the EU level. We control for the level of professionalization and use country dummies to identify country-level differences. We find strong empirical support for our theoretical argument. The contribution of this article is to theoretically connect macro-level population-level factors to micro-level intra-organizational processes and specifies the nature of the organizational link between interests in society and those represented in the interest group system.

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Section: Theoretical Propositionmentioning

confidence: 68%

Looking for ‘Voice’ in Business and Citizen Groups: Who’s Being Heard?

2021

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“…Second, from a "resource mobilization and organizational forms" approach (Andrews and Edwards 2004;Minkoff and McCarthy 2005), scholars analyze CSO engagement through resources. Groups that have the resources to stay and keep close contact with policymakers (Dairon and Badache 2021;Dörfler and Heinzel 2022) experience benefits when aiming to influence policy outcomes where northern CSOs are clearly outnumbered (Hanegraaff et al 2020).…”

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Civil Society at the United Nations Through the Lens of Organizational Sociology: Exclusion and Temporariness

Kimber

2023

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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Studying the inclusion of civil society in international organizations has grown in the last decade. This article repatriates the ongoing scholarly discussions of this inclusion within organizational sociology to answer what the nature of civil society is as an organization at the United Nations. With “temporary organizations” it proposes a relational perspective whereby civil society’s temporariness induces mechanisms of exclusion and vice-versa. In practice civil society actors counter exclusion mechanisms by holding on to their autonomy.

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