ISBN:
9780415899130
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (355 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Global Justice Activism and Policy Reform in Europe
DDC:
303.48/4094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Civil society activism around issues of global justice has proliferated in Europe during the past two decades. Has such contestation and advocacy made a difference? This book examines whether and how the organizations, networks and campaigns involved have attained their policy objectives in the areas of debt relief, international trade, international taxation and corporate accountability. The analysis also considers the relationship between national and transnational activism. By comparing variations in the "activism-policy nexus" in France, Italy and the United Kingdom, it seeks to understand
Description / Table of Contents:
Global Justice Activism and Policy Reform in Europe Understanding When Change Happens; Copyright; Contents; List of Annexes; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: Understanding the Activism-Policy Nexus; Part IActors, Institutions and Networks; 1 Elite Business Power and Activist Responses; 2 National Policy Regimes: Implications for the Activism-Policy Nexus; 3 The Potential and Practice of Civic Networks; 4 Global Social Movement Networks and the Politics of Change; Part IIThe Activism-Policy Nexus in Practice
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Global Networks on Trade Policy: The Case of the WTO Conference in Cancún6 Advocacy for Corporate Accountability and Trade Justice: The Role of 'Noble Networks' in the United Kingdom; 7 Reforming Agricultural and Trade Policy in France: The Limits of Multi-Actor Coalitions; 8 Debt Relief and Trade Justice in Italy; 9 Dropping the Debt? British Anti-Debt Campaigns and International Development Policy; 10 The Struggle for Third World Debt Relief in France; 11 Global Justice and/as Global Democracy: The UK Campaign for a Tobin Tax
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Campaign or 'Movement of Movements'? Attac France and the Currency Transaction Tax13 How Can Activism Make Change Happen?; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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