Section on Global and Transnational Sociology / Open Topic on Global and Transnational Sociology (3 sessions)

Kiyoteru Tsutsui, University of Michigan

Matthias Koenig, University of Goettingen

Kiyoteru Tsutsui, University of Michigan

Global Human Rights Organizations and National Patterns: Amnesty International’s Responses to Darfur - Joachim J. Savelsberg, University of Minnesota

Distant Authority Structures and the Attribution of Blame: Activists vs. Superpowers - Dana M. Moss, University of California-Irvine; David A. Snow, University of California-Irvine

The World Society of Social Movements: How INGOs Shape Domestic Environmental Protest - Erin Evans, University of California-Irvine; Ann M. Hironaka, University of California-Irvine; Evan Schofer, University of California-Irvine; Sheila Xiao, University of California-Irvine

Extending Regulations of Violence: The Case of Corporal Punishment - Hollie Nyseth Brehm, The Ohio State University; Elizabeth Heger Boyle, University of Minnesota

Buying Rights and Democracy: Foreign Aid, Political Conditionalities, and Isomorphism - Liam Swiss, Memorial University