POLI 244 Chapter : POLI 244 - ER Reading (Keck & Sikkink - Transnational Advocacy Networks)

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Transnational advocacy networks voluntary, reciprocal, horizontal patterns of communication and exchange working internationally on an issue, and whose actors are bound together by shared values, a common discourse and dense exchanges of information and services. Types/stages of network influence: issue creation and agenda setting. Helps set agendas when they provoke media attention, debates, hearings and meetings on issues that had previously not been a matter of public debate. Involves modification of values context in which policy debates take place. Un theme years (year of indigenous peoples: influence on discursive positions of states and international organizations. Pressuring states and inter orgs to support international declarations or to change domestic policy: influence on institutional procedures. Multilateral bank campaign changing internal bank directives to include greater ngo and local participation in project discussion: influence on policy change in target actors which may be states, international organizations or transnational corporations. Humanitarian groups achieving cutoffs in aid to oppressive regimes: influence on state behaviour.

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