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B.A. The Pennsylvania State University For more information click here
Courses Quantitative Skills in International Relations Recent Publications: Brussels vs. the Beltway: Advocacy in the United States and the European Union. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press. (Forthcoming 2008).
“Help versus Harm: The
Impact of NGO Interventions” Book Review of Aiding Peace? The Role of
NGOs in Armed Conflict in the International Studies Review
(2007).
“Networking vs. Allying: The Decision of
Interest Groups to Join Coalitions in the US and the EU,” Journal
of European Public Policy. Vol. 14(2):366-383 (2007).
“Lobbying Success in the United States and
the European Union,” Journal of Public Policy. Vol 27(2):
35-56 (2007).
“The Power of Institutions: State and Interest-Group Activity in the European Union,” European Union Politics. Volume 5 (4): 441–466 (2004).
Civil Society (National, Transnational and International) Social Movements Advocacy & Lobbying Current Research Projects: My book project Brussels vs. the Beltway: Advocacy in the United States and the European Union investigates the determinants of lobbying decisions throughout the advocacy process. Each chapter details how institutional, issue-specific and interest-group factors blend to determine decisions about lobbying positions, argumentation, inside lobbying tactics, outside lobbying strategies, and networking and coalitions activity. In addition, factors at each of these three levels also determine policy outcomes and thus lobbying success. Drawing on 149 in-depth interviews with advocates in Washington D.C. and Brussels Belgium, active on a random sample of 47 political issues, this book presents the first large-scale quantitative study comparing lobbying in the US and the EU. I am beginning my next project that will look at the mobilization of civil society among displaced populations. When violent conflict or environmental disaster results in massive forced migration, communities experience a complete breakdown in social order. During displacement, either across borders or internally within a country, the displaced are faced with collective problems. In certain situations the displaced have mobilized and organized to solve the problems they encounter, in other situations malaise and reliance on international aid has led to vicious cycles resulting in a further breakdown of social order. International, national, and local NGOs play an important role in understanding when the displaced mobilize and when they do not. I am also affiliated with the Transnational-NGO project in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, led by Peg Herman, Hans Peter Schmitz, Bruce Dayton and Derrick Cogburn.
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