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Paper prepared for the MPSA 69th Annual National Conference Chicago, March 31-April 3, 2011

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Paper prepared for the MPSA 69th Annual National Conference Chicago, March 31-April 3, 2011

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  1. The Transnationalization of Social Movement Organizations and its Determinants: An Overstudied Deviation or Transformative Trend?Ondřej Císař (cisar@fss.muni.cz) andKateřina Vráblíková (vrabliko@fss.muni.cz) Institute for Comparative Political Research, Masaryk University Center for the Study of Democracy, UC IrvineWork in progress; comments and criticism more than welcome! Paper prepared for the MPSA 69th Annual National Conference Chicago, March 31-April 3, 2011

  2. Contribution of the paper– descriptive and explanatory Questions: 1) How do the Czech SMOs act transnationally (externalize) their strategies and do the transnational activities form specific types of repertoire ? 2) What is the effect of the EU funding and national level repertoire on SMOs transnationalactivism? Data: The Czech Republic as the most likely case, unit of analysis 151 SMOs from 8 SMIs selected by snowball sampling

  3. Transnational activism

  4. Dimensions of transnational activities

  5. How does the EU funding and national repertoire contribute to transnational activism? EU funding: (measured as % of budget from EU grants) - cooptation hypothesis (negative effect on protest, positive on lobbying) - empowerment hypothesis (positive on protest, lobbying) National repertoire: (domestic level protest, lobbying and public persuasion) - specialization hypothesis (negative effects) - replacement hypothesis (positive effect on lobbying) - congruence hypothesis (positive relation between the same types of action)

  6. Thank you for your attention!

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