Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action

by Mary Kay Gugerty

Book Overview

Advocacy 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 fulfill normative concerns and instrumental incentives, face collective action problems, and compete as well as collaborate with other advocacy actors. The firm analogy is a useful way of studying advocacy actors because individuals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521139678
• ISBN13: 9780521139670
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"