The advocacy trap : transnational activism and state power in China / Stephen Noakes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noakes, Stephen, author.

Series:

Alternative sinology.

Alternative sinology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--China.

Political participation.

Civil society--China.

Civil society.

Transnationalism.

China--Social conditions--2000-.

China.

China--Foreign relations--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The tale of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) is typically one of non-state actors reshaping world politics through the power of persuasion and principled ideas. This book is about the unromantic and often uncomfortable realities of transnational advocacy in a strong authoritarian state and rising world power. Drawing together case studies that span a range of issues, repertoires, and results of advocacy, it elaborates the constitutive role of the state in contemporary transnational activism. Because transnational networks are significant globally and domestically, the book speaks to students of comparative and international politics, bridging what is treated here as a superficial divide between the sub-fields. It discusses the campaigns around justice for Falun Gong and the strengthening of intellectual property rights in China. The book then traces the campaign around HIV/AIDS treatment, and the effort to abolish capital punishment in China. In the campaign for Tibetan independence, Chinese intransigence on the matter of national sovereignty for Tibet produced a split within the TAN. The book argues that that TANs can be effective when a legitimacy-seeking state deems the adoption of new policy positions in a given issue area to be critical for the preservation of its own moral authority and power monopoly. The key to working more effectively in China, therefore, is to recognize the source of Chinese Communist Party legitimacy and the connectedness of an issue to it. Those wishing to approach China recognize and take seriously the Chinese power to shape global issues and campaigns in support of them.

Contents:

1. Mechanisms of persuasion: when and how are advocacy campaigns effective?

2. The power of state preferences: the `natural cases' of the campaigns for Falun Gong and IPR protection 3

3. Reading the `lay of the land': intercessory advocacy and causal process in the HIV/AIDS treatment and death penalty abolitionist campaigns

4. State-directed advocacy: the `drift' phenomenon in the `free Tibet' and global warming campaigns

5. Strategic considerations, tough choices: how state preferences influence campaign forms.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2026).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781526132413

1526132419

9781526119483

152611948X

OCLC:

1020066854