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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Advocacy Networks"”.
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How Transnational Advocacy Networks Emerge: An Empirical Investigation of a Casualty Recording Network
… explaining the emergence of transnational advocacy networks. Specifically, this research contributes to understanding TAN emergence due to a gap in institutional approaches to casualty recording in conflict and why actors join TANs. This TAN is particularly worthy of investigation because …
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Advocacy Networks in the Marcellus Shale Area: A Study of Environmental Organizations in Northeastern and Southwestern Pennsylvania
… necessarily have a higher level of environmental advocacy and that a lack of resources is a common barrier to this type of work. Organizations are better connected locally within the northeast. Counties which need to bolster their Marcellus Shale advocacy efforts in the northeast include: Carbon, …
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The Influence of Human Rights Advocacy Networks on the Prosecution of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in International Criminal Courts
"This thesis explores how human rights advocacy organizations have influenced the increased prosecution of conflict-related sexual violence in international criminal courts. This thesis will use the cases of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal …
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Advocacy Under Authoritarianism: Transnational Networks in China
The standard theoretical account of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) is one of principled non-state actors remaking world politics by upsetting conventional notions of power in the international system. Relying on persuasion and framing instead of disruption and protest, these global networks …
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An Exploratory Study of the Effectiveness of the CPJ in Defending Journalists and Press Freedom Ideals in Latin America: Transnational Advocacy in the International Sphere
… significant gap in the research on transnational advocacy and its influence, and provides a foundation upon which to further explore the roles of advocacy networks in the international community.
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Post-transition human rights performance in Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea
… the positive influence that transnational advocacy networks have in pushing the state to better its compliance with adopted norms. And additionally, this research points to the continuing impact former regime personnel and domestic political interests have over that of human rights norms. …
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Why Surrender Sovereignty? Empowering Non-State Actors to Protect the Status Quo
… Contingent on the mobilization of transnational advocacy networks, powerful states turn to sovereignty-constraining tools in response to two core features: an international legal crisis and a relatively empty international judicial landscape. In the aftermath of legal crisis, the creation of …
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Examining the dynamic of Indonesia's transnational networks in advocating Indonesia-Israel relations
… some transnational actors create and engage in networks that advocate for Indonesia-Israel relations? Previous literature emphasizes that the role of transnational advocacy networks is to legitimize the interests of issues that arise in society. However, transnational actors are indirectly used …
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Recycling citizenship: infrastructural transformation and access struggles in Dakar's solid waste management system
… global civil society actors and a transnational advocacy network as they mobilize to defend their access to waste. This study analyzes the workers’ mobilization as a citizenship struggle, given that their claims signify efforts to influence the political economy that shapes their livelihoods. …
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When States ‘Come Out’: The Politics Of Visibility And The Diffusion Of Sexual Minority Rights In Europe
… domestic actors are embedded in transnational advocacy networks illuminates the issue and shapes the speed and direction of diffusion. Visibility has engendered the interactions between movements and states that empower people-mobilizing actors to demand change, influencing the spread of new …
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Power from the Grassroots : Strategies and Resilience of Cambodian Land and Environmental Activists
… documents that reflect their public advocacy messaging and action framing. These materials were analyzed using the method of qualitative content analysis and interpreted in dialogue with literature on social movements, resistance and Global South perspectives, centering participants’ …
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The new political economy of disability: transnational networks and individualised funding in the age of neoliberalism
… of following the policy through global networks and identifying the key players involved in its dissemination. To follow the policy, I developed a multi-site extended case study design, comprising three key sites of policy adaptation: England, Scotland and Australia. Through analysis of …
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Internationalisation of the National Aspirations of the Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel
… from public memoranda, to civil and legal advocacy by invoking international conventions and treaties and finally to personal diplomacy. The results show that it is not a zero sum game; it is an especially effective method in different ways and with varying degrees of success. It created an …
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Crafting citizens: material rhetoric, cultural intermediaries, and the Amazwi Abesifazane South African national quilt project
… and indirectly, and across transnational advocacy networks. The participants of the VOW project use a range of composition technologies to represent the narratives – from needle and thread to website design and database software, depending on their position within the project. CAS and …
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The role of NGOs and sustainability standards in oil palm developments in Gabon and Cameroon
… crop. Components of this 'transnational advocacy network' share similar values and have promoted these in a number of ways. My study finds that the 'Zero Deforestation' commitments resulting from the actions of this network have strongly affected the trajectory of development of oil palm …