Frame alignment and environmental advocacy: the influence of NGO strategies on policy outcomes in China

Zeng, Fang; Dai, Jia Le; Javed, Jeffrey

doi:10.1080/09644016.2018.1525805

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“…Considering that social movements tend to be successful when the frames used align with the frames mobilizing the participants (Zeng, Dai, & Javed, 2019), it is then important to investigate how climate change is being framed among SMOs to better comprehend collective action in climate change issues.…”

Section: Framing Perspectives On Collective Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement

Fernandes‐Jesus

Lima

Cameselle

2020

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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In this article, we focus on two demonstrations against climate change that took place in Portugal on the 12th of November 2016 and the 29th of April 2017. Two separate studies were conducted on the same protests. In Study 1, we conducted a quantitative study (N = 259), to examine the role of socio-demographics and socio-psychological predictors in predicting the actual protest. Participants were demonstrators (N = 158), as well as non-demonstrators (N = 101). Results indicated that moral motivation and identification as an environmentalist were the key variables in explaining actual protest. In Study 2, we conducted a framing analysis of the written manifestos (N = 2), to identify the core framing tasks which were used to inspire and legitimize the protests. The framing analysis suggests that the problems and paths for action were described by appealing to the interlinkage between the global and local dimensions of climate change, and that arguments of severity and urgency of the problem were the most salient. The implications of this research are discussed in relation to possible pathways for a more comprehensive understanding of the reasons why people engage in collective action in climate change related issues, and how these motives may relate to how social movements mobilize people for action.

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Section: Framing Perspectives On Collective Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement

Fernandes‐Jesus

Lima

Cameselle

2020

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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“…The interactive interpretative process through which meanings are debated and new ones are articulated substantiates frame alignment and can be examined empirically within the context of social movements (Snow et al, 2019). Ideally, and as evidenced in empirical research, the resulting frame resonance contributes to a movement's success by affirming the interaction of a frame with a discursive opportunity structure, which supports movements' arguments (Zeng et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Its ad hoc mode of action, too, differed from the established national organizations. Greenpeace is media savvy and experienced in running media campaigns, but it had a problem in lacking local legitimacy (Sarkki, 2012;Zeng et al, 2019). I shall refer to these actor groups by their organization names, when relevant; I shall otherwise refer to them and to their frames as "environmentalists".…”

Section: Frame Alignmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Frame Alignment Between Environmentalists and the Sámi in the Forest Dispute in Inari, Finland Until the 2000s—Competing Conservation Needs and Obstacles for Co-Living With the Non-Human

Nyyssönen

2022

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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The cooperation between Sámi actors and environmentalists in the resistance of loggings in the conflict over forestry in Inari, in Finnish Sápmi, in the 2000s has been presented as a cohesive alliance, innovative in creating new political space and channels of influence. Looking more closely, there were foundational non-aligning factors causing friction to the alliance, relating to the legitimacy of the presence of the non-human in the biotic system. I shall examine as to what extent and why the frames employed aligned or conflicted. One way to grasp the fragility of the frame alignment is to study the opinions held by the different actors about what needs restoring/conserving, whether these are economic, ecological, or cultural elements, or a combination of these, and how the entities to be protected were situated in time. The historical context of this article is the long series of forestry conflicts in Inari, for the duration of which the transformations and varying strategies of alignment of environmental, herder, and forestry frames are studied. It is argued that the combination and number of the non-human animals to be protected were one root cause for misalignment, deepening the rifts between environmentalists and the Sámi to this day.

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“…In particular, employing both inside and outside tactics is another important condition that generates influence. Strategic decisions made by advocacy groups can influence advocacy effectiveness in general and ENGO influence in particular (Allan and Hadden, 2017;Banaszak, 1996;Simpson and Smits, 2018;Zeng et al, 2018). Groups that use inside lobbying seek to achieve influence through interactions with governmental actors by means of advisory boards, consultations, or personal contacts (Beyers, 2004;Böhmelt and Betzold, 2013).…”

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Configurational analysis of environmental NGOs and their influence on environmental policy in Turkey

Bey

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) have emerged as important actors with regard to their interest in encouraging and supporting the dissemination of environmental policies. A key starting point in the examination of ENGOs and their influence on environmental policy is to highlight their decisions to affect policy processes as a means of achieving environmental protection. Hence, ENGOs need resources and it is equally important that they effectively employ those resources to achieve environmental policy influence. ENGO lobbying is a process in which different causal conditions interact with one another to affect environmental policy. However, minimal attention has been paid to how different conditions occurring together exert influence. This paper argues that it is the combined effect of resources and effective strategies that enables ENGOs to exert policy influence. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is used to test the combined nature of different conditions. A dataset created in 2019 that includes 38 ENGOs from Turkey reveals that the combination of multiple interchangeable conditions leads to high ENGO policy influence. The findings suggest that advocacy effectiveness is achieved via two different causal paths. The first path entails having a large staff size, lobbying multiple venues, and using both inside and outside lobbying tactics, while the second involves large membership size, the use of both inside and outside lobbying, and lobbying multiple venues. This study suggests an alternative way of using the determinants of environmental policy influence and offers a new perspective for ENGO leaders to influence environmental policy.

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Frame alignment and environmental advocacy: the influence of NGO strategies on policy outcomes in China

Cited by 18 publications

References 33 publications

“Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement

“Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement

Frame Alignment Between Environmentalists and the Sámi in the Forest Dispute in Inari, Finland Until the 2000s—Competing Conservation Needs and Obstacles for Co-Living With the Non-Human

Configurational analysis of environmental NGOs and their influence on environmental policy in Turkey

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