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The Political Economy of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations: Funding, Agendas and Strategic Actors in Public Policy

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dc.contributor.author Kauneckis, Derek en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:35:46Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:35:46Z
dc.date.issued 1998 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2001-07-02 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2001-07-02 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1296
dc.description.abstract From pp 1-2: "Environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) have become increasingly in public policy since the 1970s. With recent efforts towards decentralization and privatization their function has increased beyond agenda setting and includes policy evaluation and implementation (Clark 1995, Salamon 1994). Even multilateral development organizations have increased the involvement of ENGOs in development projects as an answer to cries for more accountability and a greater inclusion of civil society (World Bank 1996). Yet in spite of the increased activity og ENGOs there is a curious lack of theory. Public policy analysts have tended to assume that ENGOs are of one type and exhibit homogeneous behavior in the public policy settings. They are assigned the category of public interest organizations and understood to generally represent members' interests. "This paper presents a basic model of environmental nongovernmental organizations and their behavior in policy situations. It develops a classification of three basic types of environmental groups; collective action organizations, interest groups and bureaucratic organizations. These are defined based on internal institutional structures and incentives. It then lays out a framework to understand dynamic between environmental membership organizations and donors. Finally, the paper makes some theoretical predictions on the behavior of these organizations in a policy setting. "It is premised on the idea that the behavior of an organization in a public policy context is largely determined by the institutional constraints under which the organization operates. The focus of this paper is not on the external political frame under which organizations operate, but rather the internal structures which mediate their behavior." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject Workshop en_US
dc.subject NGOs--theory en_US
dc.subject organizational behavior en_US
dc.subject public policy--analysis en_US
dc.subject environmental policy en_US
dc.title The Political Economy of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations: Funding, Agendas and Strategic Actors in Public Policy en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.subject.sector Theory en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Crossing Boundaries, the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 10-14 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada en_US
dc.submitter.email hess@indiana.edu en_US


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