Global Justice Activism and Policy Reform in Europe

Civil society activism around issues of global justice has proliferated in Europe during the past two decades. Has such contestation and advocacy made a difference? This book examines whether and how the organizations, networks and campaigns involved have attained their policy objectives in the areas of debt relief, international trade, international taxation and corporate accountability. The analysis also considers the relationship between national and transnational activism. By comparing variations in the "activism-policy nexus" in France, Italy and the United Kingdom, it seeks to understand how such interaction and policy outcomes vary in different institutional and political contexts.

Peter Utting is Deputy Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).

Mario Pianta is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Urbino. He has been Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and at the Universite de Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

Anne Ellersiek is a visiting fellow at UNRISD. Anne obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Organization Studies at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and specializes in research on the design, management and governance of inter-organizational networks in international development and trans-national advocacy.