Coalition Ties Between NGOs and INGOs in the Global Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Movement

• In Event: 356 - Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Paper Session. Ties between Local and Global: Negotiating the Role of International Organizations

Abstract

Recently scholars have begun to investigate the factors that explain NGO ties to INGOs in global social movements. With originally collected data on the political and organizational contexts of 93 NGOs in the global sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) social movement, we use multiple regression to examine the effects that NGO political contexts related to domestic politics and integration into the world system, and organizational contexts related to NGO goals, and NGO strategies have on the number of NGO ties with INGOs in the global SOGI movement. We find that the number of NGO ties to INGOs is not related to domestic state repression generally, nor legal repression of sexual minorities specifically, but is related to a state's integration into the international human rights system. In addition, we find that some organizational contexts are more important than others. NGO goals are not related to transnational alliance formation with INGOs. Moreover, the number of NGO ties to INGOs increases when NGO strategies are constituency services or international advocacy and have no relationship to ties to when the NGO strategies involve national advocacy.

Authors

• Russell Frank Ferri, New York University

• Jo Dixon, New York University