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020 _a9780511762635 (ebook)
020 _z9780521198387 (hardback)
020 _z9780521139670 (paperback)
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_cUkCbUP
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050 0 0 _aJF529
_b.A38 2010
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245 0 0 _aAdvocacy Organizations and Collective Action /
_cedited by Aseem Prakash, Mary Kay Gugerty.
246 3 _aAdvocacy Organizations & Collective Action
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2010.
300 _a1 online resource (336 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aAdvocacy organizations are viewed as actors motivated primarily by principled beliefs. This volume outlines a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations, proposing a model of NGOs as collective actors that seek to fulfil normative concerns and instrumental incentives, face collective action problems, and compete as well as collaborate with other advocacy actors. The analogy of the firm is a useful way of studying advocacy actors because individuals, via advocacy NGOs, make choices which are analytically similar to those that shareholders make in the context of firms. The authors view advocacy NGOs as special types of firms that make strategic choices in policy markets which, along with creating public goods, support organizational survival, visibility, and growth. Advocacy NGOs' strategy can therefore be understood as a response to opportunities to supply distinct advocacy products to well-defined constituencies, as well as a response to normative or principled concerns.
650 0 _aPressure groups
650 0 _aSocial advocacy
700 1 _aPrakash, Aseem,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aGugerty, Mary Kay,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521198387
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511762635
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c38584
_d38584