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- Title
Ambivalenzen der Partizipation.
- Authors
Dany, Charlotte
- Abstract
Since the 1990s, the increased participation of non-state actors in international organizations and global governance processes has usually been analyzed with a focus on the enabling conditions for the influence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This article argues against this dominant view that the increasingly institutionalized opportunities for NGO-participation have ambivalent effects. How the influence of NGOs is limited by the participative governance-framework is empirically demonstrated in the case of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS, Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005). Specifically, I reveal three limits and reconstruct how these were ignited by structural, institutional and self-organizational processes under conditions of extensive participation: NGO opportunities for influence decrease in the course of the negotiation process, are confined to rather irrelevant NGO-demands and, furthermore, available for only selective NGO actors.
- Subjects
HISTORY of human rights; NONGOVERNMENTAL organization laws; HUMAN rights &; globalization; WORLD Summit on the Information Society; INTERNATIONAL cooperation; INTERNATIONAL organization; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2012, Vol 19, Issue 2, p71
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article