Transactional activism without transactions: network perspective on anti-corruption activism in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14742837.2017.1404904" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14742837.2017.1404904</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2017.1404904" target="_blank" >10.1080/14742837.2017.1404904</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Transactional activism without transactions: network perspective on anti-corruption activism in the Czech Republic

Original language description

In 2007, Petrova and Tarrow coined the term transactional activism, arguing that, despite weak individual-level political participation, civil societies in Central and Eastern Europe were surprisingly strong due to their capacity to establish transactional links. Yet the research which followed, relying mostly on quantitative data, has not uncovered much evidence of how transactional activism works. To make advances here, we take a more qualitative approach and focus on transactional ties among NGOs, developing a more fine-grained conceptualization. Specifically, we distinguish associative ties of loosely defined cooperation and interlocking ties based on the division of labour. We utilize this new conceptualization through a successful anti-corruption initiative known as &apos;Reconstruction of the State&apos;. The initiative presented itself largely in transactional terms (plurality of participating actors) and was extremely successful in the run-up to the Parliamentary elections in 2013 in the Czech Republic, inspiring similar initiatives abroad. We use social network analysis and qualitative interviews to test our concept of interlocking transactional ties. In contrast to our expectations, we find limited division of labour in the initiative, with just one organization, in the main, shouldering most of the important tasks. We use our findings to question the previously claimed importance of transactional activism in Central and Eastern Europe. Specifically, we call for more robust evidence describing how cooperation among organizations empowers civil society.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Social Movement Studies

ISSN

1474-2837

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

203-218

UT code for WoS article

000425412700006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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