Externally Sponsored Contention: The Channelling of Environmental Movement Organisations in the Czech Republic after the Fall of Communism
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Environmental Politics |
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| Web | http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a926984153~frm=titlelink |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2010.508305 |
| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | environmental movement; Czech Republic; international assistance; political activism; cooptation; channelling |
| Description | From an examination of the impact of international civil-society-building programmes on Czech environmental movement organisations (EMOs), it is clear that international influence left a deep imprint on eastern European civil societies. It did not however curb opportunities for environmental political activism, as supposed by an important part of the traditional scholarship, but instead helped create a particular form of activism based on advocacy organisations capable of staging political protest when necessary. Drawing on quantitative as well as qualitative data, employing protest event analysis and the small-N comparative method, it appears that activists dependent on foreign funding have often displayed a more assertive stance in political conflicts than their domestically embedded counterparts. |
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