Pathways of Transnational Activism: A Conceptual Framework

Sabrina Zajak

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Abstract: This paper presents a novel analytical framework to study transnational activism in the context of today’s international governance architecture. While there is a considerable amount of literature on the emergence, development, and effects of transnational activism in specific transnational governance arrangements or within a specific local context, an integrated framework that analyzes the dynamic interplay between activism, transnational institutions, and domestic contexts is still lacking. This paper outlines this framework and exemplifies it by taking the case of transnational labor-rights activism targeting labor-rights violations in a strong and nondemocratic state: the People’s Republic of China. It shows that the study of activism across different transnational pathways over time is necessary to understand the combined effects of activist interventions, institutional co-evolution and interaction as an explanation of the process of selective convergence between global norms and local practices.

Keywords: Transnational Activism; International Governance; Development; Transnational Institutes; Labour Rights; Rights Violations; Democracy; China; South east Asia; governance; institutions; domestic contexts; labour-rights; China; labor; institutional co-evolution; global norms; interventions; local (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08
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