Domestic interest groups and rights mobilization

Explaining the case of Slovenia's support for the proposed Convention on the Rights of Older Persons

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ID4262859
AutoresAnnie Herro (0000-0002-0251-8300, UNSW Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume18
Fascículo4
Páginas625-643
Data de publicação2018-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12192
OpenAlexW2793592958
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas43

Slovenia, a country that faced dramatic decline in economic growth and a relatively new European Union member, recently broke with the EU's consensus and announced its support for the proposed Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, a treaty widely expected to be very costly to implement. Using process tracing, counter-factual analysis and a range of primary and secondary qualitative data sources, in this article I explore the influence of a transnational advocacy network (TAN) on this policy shift and the relevance of national actors and structures. I argue that while people often see TANs as motivated by principled and material imperatives, scholars have mainly explored how and why ostensibly moral transnational actors, such as international non-governmental organizations, behave instrumentally. In this article, I invert this focus by discussing why a domestic TAN partner - a traditional interest group - mobilized around a human rights issue advanced by a TAN. In doing so, I draw on ideas from social movement studies and, more recently, from international relations to highlight the importance of domestic structures in constituting the identity and interests of individuals and organizations, and therefore their likelihood of supporting transnational norms. I seek to contribute to our understanding of the circumstances under which TANs succeed by unpacking the interactions between the national origin of domestic interest groups, and the crucial links between transnational and domestic groups that are responsible for TANs forming and thereby potentially exerting influence

Convention · Human rights · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Treaty · European Union Policy and Governance · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies