TY - JOUR
T1 - Path dependence, critical junctures, and political contestation
T2 - The developmental trajectories of environmental NGOs in South Korea
AU - Ju, Chang Bum
AU - Tang, Shui Yan
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - The nonprofit sector has become an arena of increased political contestation. Rather than being shaped passively by global trends and broader power relationships among social classes and organizations, the nonprofit sector and the larger civil society have increasingly become forces shaping social and political developments. To account for how these forces unfold in different countries, one needs to go beyond social origins theory, the power-distributional account, and sociological institutionalism and draw on concepts from historical institutionalism that explicitly consider how dynamic interactions between institutional forces and long-term historical changes shape patterns of political contestation. By examining the developmental trajectories of environmental NGOs in South Korea, this article explains how political contestation-embedded within institutional and historical processes of critical junctures and path dependence-may shape developmental trajectories of the nonprofit sector.
AB - The nonprofit sector has become an arena of increased political contestation. Rather than being shaped passively by global trends and broader power relationships among social classes and organizations, the nonprofit sector and the larger civil society have increasingly become forces shaping social and political developments. To account for how these forces unfold in different countries, one needs to go beyond social origins theory, the power-distributional account, and sociological institutionalism and draw on concepts from historical institutionalism that explicitly consider how dynamic interactions between institutional forces and long-term historical changes shape patterns of political contestation. By examining the developmental trajectories of environmental NGOs in South Korea, this article explains how political contestation-embedded within institutional and historical processes of critical junctures and path dependence-may shape developmental trajectories of the nonprofit sector.
KW - environmental nonprofits
KW - historical institutionalism
KW - political contestation
KW - South Korea
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=81355139655&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0899764010378754
DO - 10.1177/0899764010378754
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:81355139655
SN - 0899-7640
VL - 40
SP - 1048
EP - 1072
JO - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
JF - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
IS - 6
ER -