The Power and Limits of NGOs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power and Limits of NGOs write by Sarah Elizabeth Mendelson. This book was released on 2002. The Power and Limits of NGOs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text assesses the impact of non-governmental organizations' efforts to build democratic institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Case studies provide a portrait of the mechanisms by which ideas commonly associated with democratic states have evolved in formerly communist states.
NGOs as Newsmakers
NGOs as Newsmakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook NGOs as Newsmakers write by Matthew Powers. This book was released on 2018-05-15. NGOs as Newsmakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As traditional news outlets’ international coverage has waned, several prominent nongovernmental organizations have taken on a growing number of seemingly journalistic functions. Groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Médecins Sans Frontières send reporters to gather information and provide analysis and assign photographers and videographers to boost the visibility of their work. Digital technologies and social media have increased the potential for NGOs to communicate directly with the public, bypassing traditional gatekeepers. But have these efforts changed and expanded traditional news practices and coverage—and are there consequences to blurring the lines between reporting and advocacy? In NGOs as Newsmakers, Matthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Drawing on interviews, observations, and content analysis, he charts the dramatic growth in NGO news-making efforts, examines whether these efforts increase the organizations' chances of garnering news coverage, and analyzes the effects of digital technologies on publicity strategies. Although the contemporary media environment offers NGOs greater opportunities to shape the news, Powers finds, it also subjects them to news-media norms. While advocacy groups can and do provide coverage of otherwise ignored places and topics, they are still dependent on traditional media and political elites and influenced by the expectations of donors, officials, journalists, and NGOs themselves. Through an unprecedented glimpse into NGOs’ newsmaking efforts, Powers portrays the possibilities and limits of NGOs as newsmakers amid the transformations of international news, with important implications for the intersections of journalism and advocacy.
Global Governance and NGO Participation
Global Governance and NGO Participation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Governance and NGO Participation write by Charlotte Dany. This book was released on 2013. Global Governance and NGO Participation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book assesses the structural power mechanisms that shape global ICT governance and analyses the impact of NGOs on communication rights, intellectual property rights, financing, and Internet governance.
Non-Governmental Organizations and Development
Non-Governmental Organizations and Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Non-Governmental Organizations and Development write by David Lewis. This book was released on 2009-09-10. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are high profile actors in the field of international development, both as providers of services to vulnerable individuals and communities and as campaigning policy advocates. This book provides a critical introduction to the wide-ranging topic of NGOs and development. Written by two authors with more than twenty years experience of research and practice in the field, the book combines a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. It highlights the importance of NGOs in development, but it also engages fully with the criticisms that the increased profile of NGOs in development now attracts. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development begins with a discussion of the wide diversity of NGOs and their roles, and locates their recent rise to prominence within broader histories of struggle as well as within the ideological context of neo-liberalism. It then moves on to analyze how interest in NGOs has both reflected and informed wider theoretical trends and debates within development studies, before analyzing NGOs and their practices, using a broad range of short case studies of successful and unsuccessful interventions. David Lewis and Nazneen Kanji then moves on to describe the ways in which NGOs are increasingly important in relation to ideas and debates about ‘civil society’, globalization and the changing ideas and practices of international aid. The book argues that NGOs are now central to development theory and practice and are likely to remain important actors in development in the years to come. In order to appreciate the issues raised by their increasing diversity and complexity, the authors conclude that it is necessary to deploy a historically and theoretically informed perspective. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practitioners. The format of the book includes figures, photographs and case studies as well as reader material in the form of summary points and questions. Despite the growing importance of the topic, no single short, up-to-date book exists that sets out the main issues in the form of a clearly written, academically-informed text: until now.
NGOs, States and Donors
NGOs, States and Donors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook NGOs, States and Donors write by Michael Edwards. This book was released on 2013-10-01. NGOs, States and Donors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the book was first published, NGOs have continued to rise in prominence, but our concerns have been little redressed. The new Preface and Afterword to this IPE Classic provide an up to date review of the debates on NGOs and the development sector that consolidate on this argument and look briefly at some of the reactions it has received.
