Szent-Iványi, B and Lightfoot, S orcid.org/0000-0003-0935-8108 (2016) Determinants of civil society influence: The case of international development and humanitarian NGOs in the Czech Republic and Hungary. Comparative European Politics, 14 (6). pp. 761-780. ISSN 1472-4790
Abstract
Accession to the EU has had ambiguous effects on civil society organizations (CSOs) in the East Central European countries. A general observation is that accession has not led to the systematic empowerment of CSOs in terms of growing influence on national policy making. This article investigates the determinants of successful CSO advocacy by looking at international development and humanitarian NGOs (NGDOs) in the Czech Republic and Hungary. Reforms in the past decade in the Czech Republic have created an international development policy largely in line with NGDO interests, while Hungary’s ministry of foreign affairs seems to have been unresponsive to reform demands from civil society. The article argues that there is clear evidence of NGDO influence in the Czech Republic on international development policy, which is because of the fact that Czech NGDOs have been able solve problems of collective actions, while the Hungarian NGDO sector remains fragmented. They also have relatively stronger capacities, can rely on greater public support and can thus present more legitimate demands towards their government.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Comparative European Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2014.50. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | foreign aid; civil society organizations; NGDOs; development policy; new member states; EU accession |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 298947 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2015 17:00 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2018 18:27 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2014.50 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/cep.2014.50 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:91245 |