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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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Byrd, Scott. "The Global Dynamics of Political Activism: Analysis of Individual Participation and Organizational Affiliation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251210_index.html>

Byrd, S. C. , 2008-03-26 "The Global Dynamics of Political Activism: Analysis of Individual Participation and Organizational Affiliation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251210_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Individuals from different countries vary significantly on the degree to which they engage in political activism. Scholars attribute these variations to different value systems rooted in larger institutional and ideological structures as well as internalized within the individual level of interactions. These effects are also mediated through the individual and their organizational affiliations in which they are embedded producing particular patterns of behaviors. This study utilizes hierarchical methods to determine individual as well as national level factors that may influence political activism. By examining variation in activism, signing petitions and engaging in protests, across 57 countries over the last three decades of the 20th century, I test not only how individual membership and volunteering for social movement and non-social movement organizations predict activism, but also the relationship with national contextual factors such as engagement with international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and transnational social movements (TSMOs), international development aid inflow, economic development, and democratic openness. I find strong evidence that linkages to INGOs and TSMOs positively and international development aid negatively affect individual patterns of activist behavior across a wide spectrum of countries. Findings are included for cross-level interactions between organizational affiliation, international aid, and INGO and TSMO density. I conclude with a discussion of implications for world society and world systems perspectives and of possibilities for future research in the fields of organizational and international development studies.

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