Should I stay or should I go? Explaining variation in nonstate actor advocacy over time in global governance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hanegraaff, Marcel; Vergauwen, Jorik; Beyers, Jan
• 署名单位: University of Amsterdam; University of Antwerp
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12427
• 发表日期: 2020
• 关键词: civil-society; transnational advocacy; heavenly chorus; european-union; mobilization; POLICY; corporatism; interests; diversity; Lobbyists

摘要

The past decades have been characterized by a growing number of nonstate actors (NSAs) involved in global governance. However, despite this growth, only a small number of NSAs have been able to maintain a prolonged global presence over a substantial period of time. To explain why some NSAs are more active, we rely on resource dependence theory. We demonstrate that sustained advocacy over time can be explained by a density dependence mechanism, namely the more NSAs mobilize, the lower the chance that individual NSAs will prolong their global advocacy efforts. Analysis of data stemming from a unique data set of 5,627 NSAs active at the global climate conferences demonstrates that much advocacy in this field is indeed of an incidental nature, namely a large number of groups attend once and never return.