Required Readings

Review Heins, Ch. 6

Salamon, L.M. (2001 ). The nonprofit sector and democracy: Prerequisite, impediment, or irrelevance? In Alan J. Abramson, Mapping new worlds (pp.9-15) . The Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C.

Hailey, J. (2001). Beyond the formulaic: Process and practice in South Asian NGOs. In B. Cooke & U. Kothari (Eds.), Participation: The New Tyranny? (pp. 88-101). Zed Books, New York.

Hula, R., Jackson-Elmoore, C. & Reese, L. (2007). Mixing God's work and the public business: A framework for the analysis of faith-based service delivery. Review of Policy Research 24 (1), 67-89.

Franklin, M.I. (2007). NGOs and the "information society": Grassroots advocacy at the UN -- a cautionary tale. Review of Policy Research 24 (4), 309-330.

Walker, D., Jones, J.P. III, Roberts, S.M. & Frohling, O.R. (2007). When participation meets empowerment: The WWF and the politics of invitation in the Chimalapas, Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97 (2), 423-444.

Class Preparation

Additional Resources

Colonomos, A. (2004). Civil norms and "unjust" embargoes. Journal of Human Rights 3 (2), 189-201.

DeMars, W.E. (2001). Hazardous partnership: NGOs and United States intelligence in small wars. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 14, 193-222

Flowers, P.R. (2008 ). Failure to protect refugees? Domestic institutions, international organizations, and civil society in Japan. Journal of Japanese Studies, 34 (2), 333-361.

Fowler, A. (2002). Civil society research funding from a global perspective: A case for redressing bias, asymmetry and bifuractino. Voluntas 13 (3), 287-300.

Gaer, F.D. (2003) Implementing internationa human rights norms: UN human rights treaty bodies and NGOs. Journal of Human Rights 2 (3), 339-357.

Guinn, D.E. (2006). Defining the problem of trafficking: The interplay of US law, donor and NGO engagement in the local context in Latin America. Human Rights Quarterly 30 (1), 119-145.

Hanafi, S. (2004). The role of NGOs: Scream if you want to be heard. Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics & Culture 11 (2), 25-30.

Landolt, L.K. (2007). USAID, population control, and NGO-led democratization in Egypt: The fate of the ICPD Programme of Action. Democratization 14 (4), 706-722.

Neal, R. (2008). The importance of the state: Political dimensions of a nonprofit network in Oaxaca, Mexico. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 37 (3 ), 492-511.

Oppenheimer, M. (2006). Science and environmental policy: The role of nongovernmental organizations. Social Research 73 (3), 881-890.

Reese, L.A. & Rosenfeld, R.A. (2002). Civic culture and theories of local governance. In L.A. Reese & R.A. Rosenfeld, The civic culture of local economic development (pp. 17-49). Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.

Sanyal, P. (2006). Capacity building through partnership: Intermediary nongovernmental organizations as local and global actors. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly 35 (1), 66-82.

Schofer, E. & Fourcade-Gourinchas, M. (2001). The structural contexts of civic engagement: Voluntary association membership in comparative perspective. American Sociological Review 66 (6), 806-828.

Shelton, D. (2007). The International Court of Justice and nongovernmental organizations. International Community Law Review 9 (1 ), 139-155.

Stringer, L.C., Thomas, D.S.G. & Twyman, C. (2007). From global politics to local land users: Applying the United Nations Convention to combat desertification in Swaziland. The Geographical Journal 173 (2), 129-142.

VanDeth, J.W. (2000). Interesting but irrelevant: Social capital and the saliency of politics in Western Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 37 (2), 115-147.

Woodward, B.K. (2006). Global civil society and international law in global governance: Some contemporary issues. International Community Law Review 8 (2-3 ), 247-355.