International Institutions, the State, and Global Civil Society in the Age of the World Wide Web

Warkentin, Craig; Mingst, Karen A.

doi:10.1163/19426720-00602005

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“…The United Nations Association-USA's Adopt a Minefield Program helped members of the public connect on a personal level to the issue by giving them the opportunity to "adopt" a particular area containing landmines, learn more about the individuals and communities affected, and raise funds to remove the mines (Warkentin and Mingst 2000).…”

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Human Rights Organizations as Agents of Change: An Experimental Examination of Framing and Micromobilization

2015

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H uman Right Organizations (HROs) attempt to shape individuals' values and mobilize them to act. Yet little systematic research has been done to evaluate the efficacy of these efforts. We identified the three most common messaging techniques: (1) informational frames; (2) personal frames; and (3) motivational frames. We tested their efficacy using an experimental research design in which participants were randomly assigned to the control group (shown no campaign materials) or one of the treatment groups shown a campaign against sleep deprivation featuring one of these framing strategies. We then surveyed participants regarding their attitudes and their willingness to act. Results demonstrate that all three framing strategies are more effective at mobilizing consensus than action. Personal narratives are the most consistently successful, increasing individuals' sense of knowledge on the issue and their emotional reaction to the issue, leading them to reject the practice and participate in a campaign to demand its cessation.

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Human Rights Organizations as Agents of Change: An Experimental Examination of Framing and Micromobilization

2015

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“…Social justice activists had demonstrated in the 1990s that they could sometimes persuade elites to be more judicious in their acts of destruction and violence (Finnemore 1996;Klotz 1996;Ron 2003;Warkentin and Mingst 2000). The Antiapartheid Movement campaigned for economic and cultural boycotts on South Africa and brought down that racist regime in 1994.…”

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N30 + 10: global civil society, a decade after the battle of Seattle

Bornstein

2009

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Now that a decade has passed, it is possible to discuss whether the events of ''N30,'' as it was called by activists, inspired increased participation in social justice movements or whether N30 marked the high tide of opposition to neoliberalism and militarism. Have global justice movements that defend the weak and oppressed been undermined by co-optation and violent repression, or have they broadened support for new standards of environmentalism, human rights, and dignity? Looking forward, what new challenges or opportunities have arisen from the great recession that began in 2008? This article begins to answer these questions by reviewing the events of N30 in Seattle, the theorization of this event as an expression of a ''global civil society,'' the co-optation of global civil society by international elites, its violent repression by militarized forces, and strategies from ''below and to the left'' for the current crisis.

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“…What has been emphasized already in the early 1970s, within the interdependency debate (Keohane and Nye 1972) and again in the analysis of transatlantic relations (Risse-Kappen 1995), also holds for other areas of international relations and development co-operation. With one important addition: today's developments are supported and deepened through new technologies (Warkentin and Mingst 2000). Several 'local chapters' of INGOs are, in fact, formed as a result of the presence of an international association, which in turn originates from a national context (Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Transparency International).…”

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“…A more recent example of an effective 'defence' was the 1997 campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) proposed by the OECD in order to protect foreign investments, or the WTO summit at Seattle in December 1999. Examples indicate that NGOs and individual members who, at the time, rallied against NAFTA, were now, with the help of the Internet, able to campaign more forcefully against the MAI (see Kobrin 1998;Warkentin and Mingst 2000). In the case of the Seattle meeting, the conference, although strongly hampered by nongovernmental protests, was (contrary to a widespread perception) eventually suspended due to members' inability to reach consensus in some key areas and to launch a new trade round.…”

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Constructive Pressures And Incentives To Reform: Globalization and its impact on public sector performance and governance in developing countries

Fuhr¹

2001

Public Management Review

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International Institutions, the State, and Global Civil Society in the Age of the World Wide Web

Cited by 57 publications

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Human Rights Organizations as Agents of Change: An Experimental Examination of Framing and Micromobilization

Human Rights Organizations as Agents of Change: An Experimental Examination of Framing and Micromobilization

N30 + 10: global civil society, a decade after the battle of Seattle

Constructive Pressures And Incentives To Reform: Globalization and its impact on public sector performance and governance in developing countries

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