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Liu, Li-Yin.

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Cultural Influences on Taiwanese Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations' Strategies and on Public Perceptions of their Strategies.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cultural Influences on Taiwanese Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations' Strategies and on Public Perceptions of their Strategies./
Author:	Liu, Li-Yin.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	181 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-11B(E).
Subject:	Environmental studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10266322
ISBN:	9781369886283

Cultural Influences on Taiwanese Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations' Strategies and on Public Perceptions of their Strategies.
Liu, Li-Yin.

Cultural Influences on Taiwanese Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations' Strategies and on Public Perceptions of their Strategies. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 181 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Illinois University, 2017.

The strategies of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and public perceptions of environmental activism in Taiwan are arguably crucial, yet understudied determinants, of types of environmental activism and of public support for environmental policies. Accordingly, this study sought answers to several important unasked questions in environmental governance and public opinion research: 1) How do ENGOs' decision makers decide what types of environmental activities to pursue? 2) What role does ENGOs' organizational culture play in their decision making? 3) How does the public perceive different types of environmental activism? And 4) How does culture influence these perceptions? To answer these questions, this study utilized cultural theory (CT) developed by Mary Douglas, Aaron Wildavsky, and others (Douglas and Wildavsky 1982; Schwarz and Thompson 1990; Thompson, Ellis, and Wildavsky 1990) to develop hypotheses to test data collected through two online surveys.

ISBN: 9781369886283Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122803
Environmental studies.

Cultural Influences on Taiwanese Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations' Strategies and on Public Perceptions of their Strategies.
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520 $a The strategies of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and public perceptions of environmental activism in Taiwan are arguably crucial, yet understudied determinants, of types of environmental activism and of public support for environmental policies. Accordingly, this study sought answers to several important unasked questions in environmental governance and public opinion research: 1) How do ENGOs' decision makers decide what types of environmental activities to pursue? 2) What role does ENGOs' organizational culture play in their decision making? 3) How does the public perceive different types of environmental activism? And 4) How does culture influence these perceptions? To answer these questions, this study utilized cultural theory (CT) developed by Mary Douglas, Aaron Wildavsky, and others (Douglas and Wildavsky 1982; Schwarz and Thompson 1990; Thompson, Ellis, and Wildavsky 1990) to develop hypotheses to test data collected through two online surveys.
520 $a The evidence confirms what CT predicted. First, ENGOs' decision making on environmental activism is neither affected by their organizational scale nor the effectiveness and acceptance of environmental activities. Instead ENGOs' organizational culture and their decision makers' cultural biases play a crucial role. At the individual level, decision makers/environmentalists who are egalitarians are more likely to initiate every type of environmental activity, especially protest based environmental activities, than people of other cultural types. At the organizational level, ENGOs that have egalitarian and individualistic organizational cultures are more likely to initiate every type of environmental activity, especially protest-based activities. Second, the mass public's cultural biases are helpful in explaining its perceptions of environmental information sources and different types of environmental activities. Specifically, as CT predicted, hierarchs tend to believe in people who have proper authority, such as environmentalists. Individualists tend to believe in information that may favor economic growth over environmental protection, such as economists. Moreover, egalitarians tended to consider protest-based environmental activities as effective and acceptable, while individualists tended to have negative thoughts about the effectiveness and acceptance of protest-based activities.
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