Video: Transational Advocacy networks

exisitng theories focused on stability

  • but werent able to explain why change occured

Bottom up actors=transational advocay networks

  • to understand why change occured

  • described reality, people engaged advocating, argueing in favor of postions to get ideas in poltics

  • transational because they arent limited to boarders

  • important part of why changes were happening in poltics

Transactional advocacy networks

  • networks: voluntary, reciprical, horizontal

    • voluntary: people choose to enter network

    • horizontal: theres no bose, no one can fire you

    • reciprical: people join networks to get something out of it, and stay as they get things out of it

  • Must work across boarders=3 countries

  • Must be advocating for specific ideas of issue

  • people working together with common set of ideas and engage in dense exchanges of services/information

    • ford foundation—> providing money to amnesty international

    • Media

    • Ngos, civil soceities

  • Networks= agents, states, structures

    • they prefer real people (agents) who bring about people

Her focus: emergence of new norms and new ideas

Networks

  • hub and wheel network: gatekeepers, choose which issue are adopted