Crowded Out

The Competitive Landscape of Contemporary International NGOs

Sarah Sunn Bush (University of Pennsylvania), Jennifer Hadden (Brown University)

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Cambridge University Press
15 May 2025

Comparative politics; International institutions; Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

Crowded Out delves into the complex landscape of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Bush and Hadden trace INGOs' rise to prominence at the end of the twentieth century and three significant but overlooked recent trends: a decrease in new INGO foundings, despite persistent global need; a shift towards specialization, despite the complexity of global problems; and a dispersal of INGO activities globally, despite potential gains from concentrating on areas of acute need. Assembling a wealth of new data on INGO foundings, missions, and locations, Bush and Hadden show how INGOs are being crowded out of dense organizational environments. They conduct case studies of INGOs across issue areas, relying on dozens of interviews and a large-scale survey to bring practitioners' voices to the study of INGOs. To effectively address today's global challenges, organizations must innovate in a crowded world. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

By: Sarah Sunn Bush (University of Pennsylvania), Jennifer Hadden (Brown University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009557368
ISBN 10: 100955736X
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 15 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sarah Sunn Bush is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of two previous books with Cambridge University Press: Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections (2022) and The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does Not Confront Dictators (2015). Jennifer Hadden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University. Her previous book with Cambridge University Press Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change (2015) received four book awards from the American Political Science Association and the International Political Science Association.