17. Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy

Revolutionary, advocate, agent, or authority: context-based assessment of the democratic legitimacy of transnational civil society actors

“…20 One persistent concern was that civil society, particularly at the global level, was fundamentally dominated by elites. Research from both development studies 21 and political science 22 highlighted CSOs' use of elite mechanisms. Some argued that civil society replicated and magnified the power imbalances of the old state system rather than remedying them.…”