Mcgee Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 4391763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mcgee Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mcgee |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action
Advocacy organizations are viewed as actors motivated primarily by principled beliefs. This volume outlines a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations, proposing a model of NGOs as collective actors that seek to fulfil normative concerns and instrumental incentives, face collective action problems, and compete as well as collaborate with other advocacy actors. The analogy of the firm is a useful way of studying advocacy actors because i…
From Conservation to Environment
In the 1950s, the Sierra Club emerged as a leader of the nascent environmental movement. In challenging a proposal to build two dams within the boundaries of Dinosaur National Monument, the Club found its voice as a public advocate for the preservation of wilderness and in the process introduced a new type of politics to old conflicts over conservation. Born out of the Dinosaur dam conflict was a new environmentalism characterized by confrontatio…
The Political Roots of Small Business Identity
A divided and largely hapless small business lobby failed to advocate effectively on behalf of small firms in the post-New Deal era. While interest-group scholars have accepted collective action-based arguments for patterns of under-mobilization, this article challenges conventional wisdom by examining historical and institutional causes of small business political fragmentation. It shows a fractured small business community emerging out of the p…
Civil Society and the State
Among the many undertilled fields in political science, few are in as much need of cultivation as the study of the relationship between political associations and the state. Even though particular types of interactions have been analyzed at length, such as the role of political opportunity structures in mediating social movement success, other types of interactions, in particular those that would constitute “normal politics,” have received less a…
From Conservation to Environment
In the 1950s, the Sierra Club emerged as a leader of the nascent environmental movement. In challenging a proposal to build two dams within the boundaries of Dinosaur National Monument, the Club found its voice as a public advocate for the preservation of wilderness and in the process introduced a new type of politics to old conflicts over conservation. Born out of the Dinosaur dam conflict was a new environmentalism characterized by confrontatio…
Civil Society and the State
Among the many undertilled fields in political science, few are in as much need of cultivation as the study of the relationship between political associations and the state. Even though particular types of interactions have been analyzed at length, such as the role of political opportunity structures in mediating social movement success, other types of interactions, in particular those that would constitute “normal politics,” have received less a…
The Political Roots of Small Business Identity
A divided and largely hapless small business lobby failed to advocate effectively on behalf of small firms in the post-New Deal era. While interest-group scholars have accepted collective action-based arguments for patterns of under-mobilization, this article challenges conventional wisdom by examining historical and institutional causes of small business political fragmentation. It shows a fractured small business community emerging out of the p…
Civil Society and the State
Among the many undertilled fields in political science, few are in as much need of cultivation as the study of the relationship between political associations and the state. Even though particular types of interactions have been analyzed at length, such as the role of political opportunity structures in mediating social movement success, other types of interactions, in particular those that would constitute “normal politics,” have received less a…
From Conservation to Environment
In the 1950s, the Sierra Club emerged as a leader of the nascent environmental movement. In challenging a proposal to build two dams within the boundaries of Dinosaur National Monument, the Club found its voice as a public advocate for the preservation of wilderness and in the process introduced a new type of politics to old conflicts over conservation. Born out of the Dinosaur dam conflict was a new environmentalism characterized by confrontatio…
The Political Roots of Small Business Identity
A divided and largely hapless small business lobby failed to advocate effectively on behalf of small firms in the post-New Deal era. While interest-group scholars have accepted collective action-based arguments for patterns of under-mobilization, this article challenges conventional wisdom by examining historical and institutional causes of small business political fragmentation. It shows a fractured small business community emerging out of the p…
Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action
Advocacy organizations are viewed as actors motivated primarily by principled beliefs. This volume outlines a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations, proposing a model of NGOs as collective actors that seek to fulfil normative concerns and instrumental incentives, face collective action problems, and compete as well as collaborate with other advocacy actors. The analogy of the firm is a useful way of studying advocacy actors because i…
Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Collective action (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)