| Abstrakt: |
Sociologists have identified international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as the primary transmitters of norms from the global core to developing countries. This research is, however, largely silent on exactly how international NGOs help such norms diffuse. In this paper, we demonstrate that local NGOs are part of the answer. Based on data gathered from NGOs at the 2012 International AIDS Conference, we find that local NGOs are indeed responsible for transmission of "best practices," norms, and findings from conferences back to their home countries. Countries are not, however, equally represented by local NGOs at such conferences, thus skewing the transnational transfer of information towards those countries with better representation. In addition, we find evidence for local NGOs transmitting knowledge back to the global core, through advocacy and promotion of their organizations. We conclude that international NGOs do play a crucial role in norm transmission, but often through more indirect mechanisms than has been theorized by scholars of world culture, and that there are important reverse flows of knowledge that occur at international conferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
