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Beyond the Boomerang: From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics (NGOgraphies: Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs) by Christopher L. Pallas (Editor) & Elizabeth A. Bloodgood (Editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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""Beyond the Boomerang" provides a substantial update and revision to one of the most prominent theories in transnational advocacy, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink's boomerang theory. Their 1998 book, Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Cornell University Press), remains one of the first broadly applicable theories for why groups of NGOs and interested individuals formed transnational advocacy networks. Keck and Sikkink argued that these networks formed when local NGOs (typically from the global South) faced local blockages, usually in the form of intransigent government officials, and reached out to international NGOs (typically from the global North) to rally international pressure on behalf of the local actors. Their book has been cited more than 12,000 times and is a standard text for graduate students around the world. Since publication, the empirical conditions that prompted their theory have changed. The types of actors involved in transnational advocacy have diversified. Northern NGOs have lost power and influence and been restricted in their access to southern states. Southern NGOs have developed a capacity to undertake advocacy on t

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Christopher L. Pallas (Editor) & Elizabeth A. Bloodgood (Editor)
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9780817393878
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Social_sciences

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