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"International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) are central participants in world politics, but recent trends include decreased INGO foundings, increased mission specialization, and increased geographic dispersion. Crowded Out explores and explains these consequential developments. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core"--
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. A theory of INGO populations; 3. After the INGO explosion; 4. The growing specialization of INGOs; 5. The spreading out of INGOs; 6. The future of INGOs; 7. Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Sarah Sunn Bush is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of two previous books with Cambridge University Press: Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections (2022) and The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does Not Confront Dictators (2015).Jennifer Hadden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University. Her previous book with Cambridge University Press Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change (2015) received four book awards from the American Political Science Association and the International Political Science Association.
Summary
International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) are central participants in world politics, but recent trends include decreased INGO foundings, increased mission specialization, and increased geographic dispersion. Crowded Out explores and explains these consequential developments. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Foreword
Explains three important but unexamined trends in INGO politics: decreased foundings, increased specialization, and increased geographic dispersion.