Christine Mahoney

Failure and Hope

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book documents how global advocacy on behalf of refugees has failed, and proposes a new strategy using social entrepreneurship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781316614983
• ISBN-10: 1316614980
• Artikelnr.: 48810676

Autorenporträt

Christine Mahoney is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Politics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Director of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia. She studies social justice advocacy and social innovation. Her book, Brussels versus the Beltway: Advocacy in the United States and the European Union (2008), was the first large-scale comparative study of lobbying in the US and the EU. She has also published in the Journal of Politics and many other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Failure is the norm
2. Global attention to displacement crises
3. Explaining global attention: geopolitics vs advocacy
4. Frontline advocacy: lobbying for refugee rights at the national level
5. Frontline advocacy: advocating for rights in displacement camps
6. Frontline mobilization: advocating for rights in displacement camps
7. An innovative global campaign of action
8. Conclusion
References.