Negotiating Organizational Access as a Multifaceted Process: Comparative Research Experiences With Three Advocacy NGOs in Kenya

Governing International Advocacy NGOs

— International advocacy NGOs (IANGOs) are increasingly important actors in the international arena. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the cases of ten IANGOs that operate in diverse advocacy contexts, including development, environment, governance, human rights, and constituent support. It examines the patterns of governance, organizational architecture, and advocacy effectiveness ...

a comparative study of the theme of "marriage" in three victorian novelists: charles dickens, george eliot and thomas hardy

این تحقیق کوشیده است با انتخاب پنج رمان از میان آثار برگزیده، «چارلز دیکنز»، «جورج الیوت» و «توماس هاردی » و با رویکردی تطبیقی به بررسی درونمایه ی «ازدواج» در آثار این سه رمان نویس بزرگ دوره ی ویکتوریا بپردازد. فرضیه ی اولیه ی تحقیق این بوده است که چارلز دیکنز (1870- 1812) با زبانی شوخ و گزنده، جورج الیوت(1880- 1819) با نگاهی آموزشی–اندرزگونه و توماس هاردی(1928- 1840) با رویکردی تلخ وانتقادی به...

Wrong way , go back ! Negotiating access in industry - based research

Studying Organizational Advocacy and Influence: Reexamining Interest Group Research

In Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science (1998), Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech characterized a series of problems in the interest group research published between 1950 and 1995. In this article, we assess whether recent research has becomemore theoretically coherent, more attentive to context, and broader in both scope and topical focus, all of which ...

Negotiating Domain Ontologies in Distributed Organizational Memories

Organizational Memory Information Systems (OMIS) have a strong need to represent shared understanding of various actors in the information landscape. Ontologies are widely seen as an adequate means for this purpose. In the FRODO project we develop an agent-based framework for Distributed Organizational Memories, and one important type of agent in the framework are agents responsible for managin...