POG 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Effective Action, Agenda 21, Persistent Organic Pollutant

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 225
• Professor: Miriam Anderson

Document Summary

Transnational actors and international organizations in world politics. There are other actors that are equally as important as states. International organization: problems with state centric approaches. Three meanings of concept of the state. A government: problems with state centric approaches. Many ngos have membership in the millions. Networks of activists, distinguishable largely by the centrality of principled ideas or values in motivating their formation . Human rights, the environment, women"s rights, democratization etc. 1) centrality of values or principled ideas. 2) the belief that individuals can make a difference. 4) use of sophisticated strategies in their campaigns. Religious groups, trade unions, consumer orgs and intellectuals. Parts of regional and international intergovernmental orgs. Part of the executive and or parliamentary branches of governments. Information politics: the ability to quickly and credibly generate politically usable information and move it to where it has the most impact.