Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action

摘要: The volume outlines a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations, which are often known as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and social movement organizations. Instead viewing NGOs actors that primarily motivated by principled beliefs, immune from collective action challenges, prone to collaborating with other actors, we suggest modeling seek fulfill both normative concerns instrumental incentives, face problems, compete well collaborate function in same issue area. Because firms share important characteristics (notwithstanding their differences), firm analogy, suggest, is an analytically useful way studying actors. perspective provides unifying analytical approach (as governments) because it directs attention core challenges inherent structuring managing This suggests need move beyond “saints” “sinners.” Indeed, how why hierarchies, networks, alliances arise maintained context can illuminate issues such networks emerge, they internally organize, strategize. We agree Thomas Risse (this volume) scholars interested examining structures, policies, strategies derive insights NGOs.