Global Networking of NGOs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimei Yang
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
World System ◽  
Organizational Ecology ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Niche Theory ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
World Polity ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

The typology of nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations (NGOs) classifies them according to their orientations and levels of operations. The type of ties associated with NGOs and related networks are complex and pervasive. To help readers understand the structural features of these networks, several theoretical frameworks and theories (i.e., world system theory, world polity theory, organizational ecology theory, and issue niche theory) are offered as different explanations for the antecedents and consequences of NGO networks.

scholarly journals The agent-structure problem in international relations theory

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander E. Wendt
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
International Relations ◽  
World System ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
System Structure ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
Structure Problem ◽  
State Agents ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Agent Structure

While neorealism and world-system theory both claim to be “structural” theories of international relations, they embody very different understandings of system structure and structural explanation. Neorealists conceptualize system structures in individualist terms as constraining the choices of preexisting state agents, whereas world-system theorists conceptualize system structures in structuralist terms as generating state agents themselves. These differences stem from what are, in some respects, fundamentally opposed solutions to the “agent-structure” or “micromacro” problem. This opposition, however, itself reflects a deeper failure of each theory to recognize the mutually constitutive nature of human agents and system structures—a failure which leads to deep-seated inadequacies in their respective explanations of state action. An alternative solution to the agent-structure problem, adapted from “structuration theory” in sociology, can overcome these inadequacies by avoiding both the reduction of system structures to state actors in neorealism and their reification in world-system theory. Structuration theory requires a philosophical basis in scientific realism, arguably the “new orthodoxy” in the philosophy of natural science, but as yet largely unrecognized by political scientists. The scientific realist/structuration approach generates an agenda for “structural-historical” research into the properties and dispositions of both state actors and the system structures in which they are embedded.

The World-System Theory of Oliver C. Cox

1985 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert M. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World System ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
The World

Dependency and World System Theory

1981 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 148-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Petras
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World System ◽  
World System Theory

World System Theory

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 358
Author(s):  
Albert Bergesen ◽  
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World System ◽  
World System Theory
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