Jennifer Hadden
Biographic Data
| ID | 408910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Hadden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Hadden |
| SIGNATURE | HADDEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1337-5827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Improving future climate meetings
Unmuting the message
Home Field Advantage
Building new energy infrastructure in emerging economies is a key pillar of global sustainable development, with the current project pipeline encompassing both foreign and domestic-led projects. But despite widespread need, energy projects are frequently criticized and opposed by citizens. Drawing on a conjoint experiment fielded in three major emerging economies, we examine the behavioral foundations of the political process underlying energy in…
The Ecocentrists
In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makoto Woodhouse skillfully deploys historical methods to trace the origins and development of the ecocentric approach to environmental activism, with a focus on the organization Earth First! (EF!). Throughout, Woodhouse pays particular attention to the philosophical origins of ecocentrism, how it generates tensions within the environmental movement between those who prefer different tactics, and how it is (re)interpret…
Introduction
Climate change is fundamentally a political problem; it is not merely a technical or economic challenge but rather an arena for sharp conflicts over the distribution of gains and losses and the associated ethical challenges. However, as Keohane (2015), Javeline (2014), and Green and Hale (2017) noted in PS: Political Science & Politics and Perspectives on Politics , research on climate change has not been traditionally central to mainstream polit…
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals
Elite surveys are increasingly common in political science, but how best to motivate participation in them remains poorly understood. This study compares the effect of three treatments designed to increase participation in an online survey of international non-profit professionals: a monetary reward, an altruistic appeal emphasizing the study’s benefits, and a promise to give the respondent access to the study’s results. Only the monetary incenti…
Using Earnings Calls to Understand the Political Behavior of Major Polluters
The role that private actors play in accelerating or preventing progressive climate policy and true decarbonization is a core research interest of global environmental politics. Yet scholars have struggled to measure the political behavior of multinational firms due to lack of transparency about their activities and inconsistency in reporting requirements across jurisdictions. In this research note, we present a new data source—firms’ earnings ca…
How Did Environmental Governance Become Complex? Understanding Mutualism Between Environmental NGOs and International Organizations
Recent international relations scholarship has adopted the perspective of organizational ecology (OE) to explore a range of questions related to organizational emergence, strategy, and death. These studies draw attention to organizational competition as the mechanism underpinning important transformations in global governance. We argue that existing work in IR that uses OE has overlooked the importance of another strand of sociological theory tha…
What's different about the environment? Environmental Ingos in comparative perspective
Existing scholarship has established that environmental NGOs influence political and ecological outcomes across a variety of settings. Yet this work tells us relatively little about how the networks, strategies, and organizations in the environmental NGO sector compare to other NGO sectors. This article argues that adopting a cross-sectoral perspective illuminates how theory and best practice developed for other INGO sectors can apply to the stud…
Why Are Fossil Fuels So Entrenched
Recent analysis has suggested that it is technologically and economically feasible to produce all new energy with wind, water, and solar by 2030 (Jacobson and Delucchi 2011). Moreover, public opinion on renewables is very favorable; natural gas, nuclear, and coal expansion, on the other hand, are widely unpopular (Thurber 2019, 128). But the world is continuing to rely on fossil fuels to meet growing energy demand, even as renewable energy sees r…
Density and Decline in the Founding of International NGOs in the United States
It is now commonplace for scholars to note that the number of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) has exploded. But, in recent years, the growth rate of INGOs globally and in the United States has stagnated. We argue this stagnation can best be explained by changes in the environment in which INGOs work. Specifically, the now dense population environment discourages new INGOs from being founded, while also encouraging competition.…
The Power of Peers
What explains variation in the tactical choices of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? This article uses network autocorrelation models to establish how the tactical choices of climate change NGOs are shaped by their embeddedness in transnational advocacy networks. Specifically, it finds that NGOs are more likely to adopt protest tactics when adjacent organizations – those with whom they have direct ties – have already done so. The choices of …
Response to Kemi Fuentes-George’s review of Networks in Contention
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The Relational Sources of Advocacy Strategies
How do advocacy organizations make tactical choices? This paper contributes to theory building in advocacy studies by examining how the decision‐making processes of advocacy organizations are affected by the choices of their peers. Drawing on qualitative interviews with practitioners in two contexts—the European Union and the United States—I document that organizations face pressures toward cohesion and differentiation with the tactical choices o…
Exploring the framing power of NGOs in global climate politics
The Paris Agreement contains a separate article for loss and damage – an outcome that aligns with a central demand of many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at COP21. By shifting to a justice framing of loss and damage, NGOs were able to expand their mobilization and, in turn, enhance their influence. While it is not claimed that NGO advocacy was sufficient to produce the outcome, pathways by which issue framing can support increased NGO influ…
Networks and the Politics of the Environment
This chapter surveys recent research that utilizes the measures and techniques of social network analysis (SNA) to explain socioecological outcomes. The chapter focuses on the role of key characteristics of networks—including density and fragmentation, bonding and bridging social capital, brokerage and leadership—in promoting adaptive governance and co-management, and in turn, successful environmental management outcomes. It argues that network s…
What’s in a Norm? Mapping the Norm Definition Process in the Debate on Sustainable Development
This article examines the trajectory of sustainable development as an evolving international norm from 1992 to 2012. It observes that sustainable development has been broadly diffused and institutionalized. Yet it is generally recognized that it has not prompted widespread change in the behavior and policy priorities of states: an outcome the article characterizes as a “failure to launch.” It explains the stalling of the norm by drawing attention…
Global Justice Movement
Networks in Contention
How do civil society organizations mobilize on climate change? Why do they choose certain strategies over others? What are the consequences of these choices? Networks in Contention examines how the interactions between different organizations within the international climate change movement shape strategic decisions and the kinds of outcomes organizations are able to achieve. First, it documents how and why cleavages emerged in this once-unified …
NGOs and Climate Advocacy
Explaining Variation in Transnational Climate Change Activism
How can we explain variation in the volume and character of transnational collective action on climate change? This paper presents original qualitative and quantitative data to document how transnational activism on climate change has changed over time. The author draws attention to the role of transnational social movement spillover—a process by which ideas, activists, and tactics are diffused from one movement to another—in explaining this evol…
Spillover o Spillout? Il movimento per la giustizia globale negli Stati Uniti dopo l'11 settembre
Este artigo examina o impacto dos ataques de 11 de setembro de 2001 no movimento pela justiça global nos Estados Unidos. Contrariando a hipótese de "spillover", que previa um fortalecimento do movimento devido à convergência de agendas com a oposição à Guerra do Iraque, as autoras argumentam que ocorreu um "spillout", ou seja, uma fragmentação e declínio da mobilização. A repressão estatal, a mudança no discurso público e as divisões internas qua…
Spillover or Spillout? The Global Justice Movement in the United States After 9/11
This article focuses on a seemingly paradoxical sequel to the 1999 Seattle WTO protests: the weakening of the global justice movement in the United States. While the movement has flourished in Europe, it seems largely to have stagnated in the American context. This outcome cannot be explained by either American exceptionalism or by a general decline in activism in the wake of the tragedies of 9/11 and the Iraq War. First comparing expressions of …
The Power of Peers
What explains variation in the tactical choices of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? This article uses network autocorrelation models to establish how the tactical choices of climate change NGOs are shaped by their embeddedness in transnational advocacy networks. Specifically, it finds that NGOs are more likely to adopt protest tactics when adjacent organizations – those with whom they have direct ties – have already done so. The choices of …
Spillover or Spillout? The Global Justice Movement in the United States After 9/11
This article focuses on a seemingly paradoxical sequel to the 1999 Seattle WTO protests: the weakening of the global justice movement in the United States. While the movement has flourished in Europe, it seems largely to have stagnated in the American context. This outcome cannot be explained by either American exceptionalism or by a general decline in activism in the wake of the tragedies of 9/11 and the Iraq War. First comparing expressions of …
Density and Decline in the Founding of International NGOs in the United States
It is now commonplace for scholars to note that the number of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) has exploded. But, in recent years, the growth rate of INGOs globally and in the United States has stagnated. We argue this stagnation can best be explained by changes in the environment in which INGOs work. Specifically, the now dense population environment discourages new INGOs from being founded, while also encouraging competition.…
Exploring the framing power of NGOs in global climate politics
The Paris Agreement contains a separate article for loss and damage – an outcome that aligns with a central demand of many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at COP21. By shifting to a justice framing of loss and damage, NGOs were able to expand their mobilization and, in turn, enhance their influence. While it is not claimed that NGO advocacy was sufficient to produce the outcome, pathways by which issue framing can support increased NGO influ…
Explaining Variation in Transnational Climate Change Activism
How can we explain variation in the volume and character of transnational collective action on climate change? This paper presents original qualitative and quantitative data to document how transnational activism on climate change has changed over time. The author draws attention to the role of transnational social movement spillover—a process by which ideas, activists, and tactics are diffused from one movement to another—in explaining this evol…
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals
Elite surveys are increasingly common in political science, but how best to motivate participation in them remains poorly understood. This study compares the effect of three treatments designed to increase participation in an online survey of international non-profit professionals: a monetary reward, an altruistic appeal emphasizing the study’s benefits, and a promise to give the respondent access to the study’s results. Only the monetary incenti…
How Did Environmental Governance Become Complex? Understanding Mutualism Between Environmental NGOs and International Organizations
Recent international relations scholarship has adopted the perspective of organizational ecology (OE) to explore a range of questions related to organizational emergence, strategy, and death. These studies draw attention to organizational competition as the mechanism underpinning important transformations in global governance. We argue that existing work in IR that uses OE has overlooked the importance of another strand of sociological theory tha…
The Relational Sources of Advocacy Strategies
How do advocacy organizations make tactical choices? This paper contributes to theory building in advocacy studies by examining how the decision‐making processes of advocacy organizations are affected by the choices of their peers. Drawing on qualitative interviews with practitioners in two contexts—the European Union and the United States—I document that organizations face pressures toward cohesion and differentiation with the tactical choices o…
What's different about the environment? Environmental Ingos in comparative perspective
Existing scholarship has established that environmental NGOs influence political and ecological outcomes across a variety of settings. Yet this work tells us relatively little about how the networks, strategies, and organizations in the environmental NGO sector compare to other NGO sectors. This article argues that adopting a cross-sectoral perspective illuminates how theory and best practice developed for other INGO sectors can apply to the stud…
Why Are Fossil Fuels So Entrenched
Recent analysis has suggested that it is technologically and economically feasible to produce all new energy with wind, water, and solar by 2030 (Jacobson and Delucchi 2011). Moreover, public opinion on renewables is very favorable; natural gas, nuclear, and coal expansion, on the other hand, are widely unpopular (Thurber 2019, 128). But the world is continuing to rely on fossil fuels to meet growing energy demand, even as renewable energy sees r…
What’s in a Norm? Mapping the Norm Definition Process in the Debate on Sustainable Development
This article examines the trajectory of sustainable development as an evolving international norm from 1992 to 2012. It observes that sustainable development has been broadly diffused and institutionalized. Yet it is generally recognized that it has not prompted widespread change in the behavior and policy priorities of states: an outcome the article characterizes as a “failure to launch.” It explains the stalling of the norm by drawing attention…
Spillover or Spillout? The Global Justice Movement in the United States After 9/11
This article focuses on a seemingly paradoxical sequel to the 1999 Seattle WTO protests: the weakening of the global justice movement in the United States. While the movement has flourished in Europe, it seems largely to have stagnated in the American context. This outcome cannot be explained by either American exceptionalism or by a general decline in activism in the wake of the tragedies of 9/11 and the Iraq War. First comparing expressions of …
Spillover o Spillout? Il movimento per la giustizia globale negli Stati Uniti dopo l'11 settembre
Este artigo examina o impacto dos ataques de 11 de setembro de 2001 no movimento pela justiça global nos Estados Unidos. Contrariando a hipótese de "spillover", que previa um fortalecimento do movimento devido à convergência de agendas com a oposição à Guerra do Iraque, as autoras argumentam que ocorreu um "spillout", ou seja, uma fragmentação e declínio da mobilização. A repressão estatal, a mudança no discurso público e as divisões internas qua…
Explaining Variation in Transnational Climate Change Activism
How can we explain variation in the volume and character of transnational collective action on climate change? This paper presents original qualitative and quantitative data to document how transnational activism on climate change has changed over time. The author draws attention to the role of transnational social movement spillover—a process by which ideas, activists, and tactics are diffused from one movement to another—in explaining this evol…
Global Justice Movement
Networks in Contention
How do civil society organizations mobilize on climate change? Why do they choose certain strategies over others? What are the consequences of these choices? Networks in Contention examines how the interactions between different organizations within the international climate change movement shape strategic decisions and the kinds of outcomes organizations are able to achieve. First, it documents how and why cleavages emerged in this once-unified …
NGOs and Climate Advocacy
Networks and the Politics of the Environment
This chapter surveys recent research that utilizes the measures and techniques of social network analysis (SNA) to explain socioecological outcomes. The chapter focuses on the role of key characteristics of networks—including density and fragmentation, bonding and bridging social capital, brokerage and leadership—in promoting adaptive governance and co-management, and in turn, successful environmental management outcomes. It argues that network s…
What’s in a Norm? Mapping the Norm Definition Process in the Debate on Sustainable Development
This article examines the trajectory of sustainable development as an evolving international norm from 1992 to 2012. It observes that sustainable development has been broadly diffused and institutionalized. Yet it is generally recognized that it has not prompted widespread change in the behavior and policy priorities of states: an outcome the article characterizes as a “failure to launch.” It explains the stalling of the norm by drawing attention…
Exploring the framing power of NGOs in global climate politics
The Paris Agreement contains a separate article for loss and damage – an outcome that aligns with a central demand of many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at COP21. By shifting to a justice framing of loss and damage, NGOs were able to expand their mobilization and, in turn, enhance their influence. While it is not claimed that NGO advocacy was sufficient to produce the outcome, pathways by which issue framing can support increased NGO influ…
Response to Kemi Fuentes-George’s review of Networks in Contention
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Relational Sources of Advocacy Strategies
How do advocacy organizations make tactical choices? This paper contributes to theory building in advocacy studies by examining how the decision‐making processes of advocacy organizations are affected by the choices of their peers. Drawing on qualitative interviews with practitioners in two contexts—the European Union and the United States—I document that organizations face pressures toward cohesion and differentiation with the tactical choices o…
Density and Decline in the Founding of International NGOs in the United States
It is now commonplace for scholars to note that the number of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) has exploded. But, in recent years, the growth rate of INGOs globally and in the United States has stagnated. We argue this stagnation can best be explained by changes in the environment in which INGOs work. Specifically, the now dense population environment discourages new INGOs from being founded, while also encouraging competition.…
The Power of Peers
What explains variation in the tactical choices of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? This article uses network autocorrelation models to establish how the tactical choices of climate change NGOs are shaped by their embeddedness in transnational advocacy networks. Specifically, it finds that NGOs are more likely to adopt protest tactics when adjacent organizations – those with whom they have direct ties – have already done so. The choices of …
Why Are Fossil Fuels So Entrenched
Recent analysis has suggested that it is technologically and economically feasible to produce all new energy with wind, water, and solar by 2030 (Jacobson and Delucchi 2011). Moreover, public opinion on renewables is very favorable; natural gas, nuclear, and coal expansion, on the other hand, are widely unpopular (Thurber 2019, 128). But the world is continuing to rely on fossil fuels to meet growing energy demand, even as renewable energy sees r…
Using Earnings Calls to Understand the Political Behavior of Major Polluters
The role that private actors play in accelerating or preventing progressive climate policy and true decarbonization is a core research interest of global environmental politics. Yet scholars have struggled to measure the political behavior of multinational firms due to lack of transparency about their activities and inconsistency in reporting requirements across jurisdictions. In this research note, we present a new data source—firms’ earnings ca…
How Did Environmental Governance Become Complex? Understanding Mutualism Between Environmental NGOs and International Organizations
Recent international relations scholarship has adopted the perspective of organizational ecology (OE) to explore a range of questions related to organizational emergence, strategy, and death. These studies draw attention to organizational competition as the mechanism underpinning important transformations in global governance. We argue that existing work in IR that uses OE has overlooked the importance of another strand of sociological theory tha…
What's different about the environment? Environmental Ingos in comparative perspective
Existing scholarship has established that environmental NGOs influence political and ecological outcomes across a variety of settings. Yet this work tells us relatively little about how the networks, strategies, and organizations in the environmental NGO sector compare to other NGO sectors. This article argues that adopting a cross-sectoral perspective illuminates how theory and best practice developed for other INGO sectors can apply to the stud…
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals
Elite surveys are increasingly common in political science, but how best to motivate participation in them remains poorly understood. This study compares the effect of three treatments designed to increase participation in an online survey of international non-profit professionals: a monetary reward, an altruistic appeal emphasizing the study’s benefits, and a promise to give the respondent access to the study’s results. Only the monetary incenti…
The Ecocentrists
In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makoto Woodhouse skillfully deploys historical methods to trace the origins and development of the ecocentric approach to environmental activism, with a focus on the organization Earth First! (EF!). Throughout, Woodhouse pays particular attention to the philosophical origins of ecocentrism, how it generates tensions within the environmental movement between those who prefer different tactics, and how it is (re)interpret…
Introduction
Climate change is fundamentally a political problem; it is not merely a technical or economic challenge but rather an arena for sharp conflicts over the distribution of gains and losses and the associated ethical challenges. However, as Keohane (2015), Javeline (2014), and Green and Hale (2017) noted in PS: Political Science & Politics and Perspectives on Politics , research on climate change has not been traditionally central to mainstream polit…
Improving future climate meetings
Unmuting the message
Home Field Advantage
Building new energy infrastructure in emerging economies is a key pillar of global sustainable development, with the current project pipeline encompassing both foreign and domestic-led projects. But despite widespread need, energy projects are frequently criticized and opposed by citizens. Drawing on a conjoint experiment fielded in three major emerging economies, we examine the behavioral foundations of the political process underlying energy in…
Political science (20 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Climate change (8 works) · Business (7 works) · International Development and Aid (7 works)