Transnational civil society
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What are insider strategies of advocacy?
- provision of information-centred analyses, up to full-fledged policy proposals
- persuasion
- neotiation
-diaglogue
- support (campaign contributions, bribes)
What are outsider strategies of advocates?
Mobilization of public opinion
Overt confrontation
- demonstrations
- sabotage
- litigation
- bad press
- consumer action
Why do advocay groups often form networks?
- larger constituency, stronger voice
- more compelling ability to speak for/as an interest vieuwpoint
- single coive more effective thatn disagreed chorus of voices
- information sharing
- task devision
- support
- engaging with different levels of governance simultaneously.
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Advocacy network strategies as identified by Keck and Sikking:
- Information politics (moving usable information to where it is most needed)
- Symbolic politics (calling upon symbols that make sense of a situation to reach a audience that is far away)
- Accountablility politics (holding decision makers to account, oblige more powerful actors to act on vague politics or principles they formally endorsed)
- Leverage politics ( calling upon powerful actors to help influence a situation)
What is the boomerang pattern described by Keck and Sikking?
When a government violates or refuses to recognize rights, individuals and domestic groups often have no recourse within domestic political or judicial arenas. They may seek international connections to express their concerns of the state. NGOs may directly seek international allies to try and bring pressure on their states from outside. -> boomerang.
This is one of the ways that transnational networking comes in to effect.
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