Hans Peter Schmitz

The Giving Pledge

In H. K. Anheier & S. Toepler (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Toepler, Springer.

Who Governs Transnational NGOs? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Board Composition

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs.

Board Diversity of International NGOs

Academy of Management Conference. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA.

Collaborative Advocacy: Fostering Transformative Outcomes, Hope is not a Strategy

In L. Corbett (Ed.), Leadership and Positioning in Health and Human Services (pp. 157–166). Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.

Philanthropy and Heroism

Self-Awareness and Self-Study. Informal Leadership Development in the Public Sector

International Leadership Association Conference. Presented at the International Leadership Association Conference, Vancouver, CA.

Vigilantes beyond Borders: NGOs as Enforcers of International Law, Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and J. C. Sharman (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022), 248 pp., cloth $99.95, paperback $29.95, eBook $29.95.

Ethics & International Affairs, 37(2), 244–246.

Coronado Floral Association. Bringing together California’s Coronado Community

[Teaching case]. San Diego, CA: Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies.

Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse

International Studies Review, 24(3).

The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 8(1), 157–159.

Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture

International Studies Review.

What Is the Future of Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era? A Review of Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era: Think Global, Act Local, by Nina Hall (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)

Global Perspectives.

What’s the Giving Pledge? A philanthropy scholar explains

Schmitz, H. P. (2022, May 20). The Chronicle of Philanthropy/The Conversation (US). https://www.philanthropy.com/article/whats-the-giving-pledge-a-philanthropy-scholar-explains

Billionaires in Global Philanthropy: a Decade of the Giving Pledge

Society, 5.

Civil Society, 4th ed.

Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 11(3).

How Billionaires Explain Their Philanthropy: A Mixed-Method Analysis of the Giving Pledge Letters

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 32(2), 512–523.

MacKenzie Scott, The Giving Pledge, And Rival Discourses of Billionaire Philanthropy

Schmitz, H. P., Mitchell, G. E., & McCollim, E. M. (2021, July 22). HistPhil. https://histphil.org/2021/07/22/mackenzie-scott-the-giving-pledge-and-rival-discourses-of-billionaire-philanthropy/

To Remain Relevant, CSOs Need to Fix the Architecture

https://icscentre.org/2021/02/19/to-remain-relevant-csos-need-to-fix-the-architecture/

Using Model-Based Clustering to Improve Qualitative Inquiry: Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis, Latent Class Analysis, and Interpretive Transparency

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.

A Window into the Hearts and Minds of Billionaire Donors

Schmitz, H. P. (2020, June 5). The Conversation (US). https://wordandway.org/2020/06/05/a-window-into-the-hearts-and-minds-of-billionaire-donors/

A review of motives from Giving Pledge signatories

Schmitz, H. P. (2020, June 11). Philanthropy Daily. https://philanthropydaily.com/motives-giving-pledge-signatories/

Between Power and Irrelevance. The Future of Transnational NGOs

In Oxford University Press.

COVID-19 and the Urgency of Long-term Strategy

Tallack, B., Bruno-van Vijfeijken, T., Mitchell, G. E., & Schmitz, H. P. (2020, June 24). InterAction.

Democratizing advocacy?: How digital tools shape international non-governmental activism

Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 17(2), 174–191.

International NGOs: Legitimacy, Mandates and Strategic Innovation

Schmitz, H. P. (2020, August 26). E-International Relations. https://www.e-ir.info/2020/08/26/international-ngos-legitimacy-mandates-and-strategic-innovation/

A Golden Age of Philanthropy? The Giving Pledge’s Commitment Letters

Symposium Philanthropy & Social Impact. Presented at the Symposium Philanthropy & Social Impact, The Center of Philanthropy & Public Policy, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California.

Fridays for Future: How Young Climate Strikers Are Teaching NGOs a Lesson

Hall, N., Schmitz, H. P., & Dedmon, J. M. (2019, November 12). SAIS Perspectives. https://www.saisperspectives.com/2020-issue/2019/11/8/fridays-for-future-how-young-climate-strikers-are-teaching-ngos-a-lesson

Impaired Vision?: Constructing Global Protections against Bodily Harm

International Studies Association. Presented at the International Studies Association, Toronto, ON.

International NGO Legitimacy. Challenges and Responses

In Routledge Handbook of International NGOs and International Relations.

Nonprofit Collaboration in the German context

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Presented at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, San Diego, CA.

The Future of Transnational NGO Advocacy

Bloodgood, E., Bruno-van Vijfeijken, T., Hall, N., Mitchell, G. E., Pallas, C., & Schmitz, H. P. (2019, May 20). Stanford Social Innovation Review.

The Motives of Billionaire Philanthropy

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Presented at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, San Diego, CA.

Transnational Advocacy and NGOs in the Digital Era: New Forms of Networked Power

International Studies Quarterly, 64(1), 159–167.

Do Executives Approach Leadership Differently When They Are Involved in Collaborative Partnerships? A Perspective from International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs)

Public Performance & Management Review, 42(1), 213–240.

International Criminal Accountability and Transnational Advocacy Networks (TAns)

(A. Gheciu & W. C. Wohlforth, Eds.).

The Nexus of Public and Nonprofit Management

Public Performance & Management Review, 42(1), 11–33.

Digital Media and Peace, The Next Decade

Kroc Peace Magazine, 2017-18, 44–45.

Comparing global alcohol and tobacco control efforts: network formation and evolution in international health governance: Table 1

Health Policy and Planning, 31(suppl 1), i98–i109.

State of Nonprofits and Philanthropy in San Diego

San Diego, CA: Caster Family Center.

The Taming of Democracy Assistance. Why Democracy Promotion Does not Confront Dictators, by S.S. Bush, Cambridge UP, 2015

[Review of The Taming of Democracy Assistance. Why Democracy Promotion Does not Confront Dictators, by S. S. Bush]. H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable, VIII(18).

The emergence and effectiveness of global health networks: findings and future research

Health Policy and Planning, 31(suppl 1), i110–i123.

Transnational Associations and INGOs: Macro-Associations

In The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations (pp. 874–893).

A framework on the emergence and effectiveness of global health networks

Health Policy and Planning, 31(suppl 1), i3–i16.

The Other Side of the Coin: NGOs, Rights‐Based Approaches, and Public Administration

Public Administration Review, 76(2), 252–262.

The global health network on alcohol control: successes and limits of evidence-based advocacy

Health Policy and Planning, 31(suppl 1), i87–i97.

Addressing non-communicable diseases: the role of the United States government, philanthropies, and civil society

Dialogue (King's College London), (7), 23–24.

Book Review: Importing democracy: The role of NGOs in South Africa, Tajikistan, and Argentina, by Fisher, J.

[Review of ]. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 0899764014556734. SAGE Publications.

Non-State Actors in Human Rights Promotion

In The Sage Handbook of Human Rights (pp. 352–372). Sage.

Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights through International Law. By Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 256p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

[Review of ]. Perspectives on Politics, 12(04), 973–974. Cambridge University Press.

Encouraging Greater Compliance: Local Networks and the United Nations Global Compact

Cambridge University Press.

Global health governance

[Review of ]. Global public health, 8(8), 976–977. Routledge.

International human rights

In Handbook of International Relations (pp. 827–851). Sage.

Networks in Public Administration: Current scholarship in review

Public Management Review, 16(5), 643–665.

Principled instrumentalism: a theory of transnational NGO behaviour

Review of International Studies, 40(3), 487–504.

Rebels without a cause? Transnational diffusion and the Lord’s Resistance Army, 1986--2011

In Transnational Dynamics of Civil War, edited by Jeffrey T. Checkel (pp. 120–148). Cambridge University Press.

Rights-based approaches to development: from rights ‘talk’ to joint action

Schmitz, H. P. (2013, November 27). OpenGlobalRights. https://www.openglobalrights.org/rights-based-approaches-to-development-from-rights-talk-to-joi/

The INGO research agenda. A community approach to challenges in method and theory

In Routledge Handbook of International Organization (pp. 67–79). Routledge.

[Book Review] Jack Donnelly. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 3rd edition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

[Review of ]. H-Diplo, H-Net Review. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39846.

A Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) in Practice: Evaluating NGO Development Efforts

Polity, 44(4), 523–541.

Borders among Activists, by S.S. Stroup, Cornell UP,

[Review of Borders among Activists, by S. S. Stroup]. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/30439/schmitz-stroup-borders-among-activists-international-ngos-united-states

Democratic Imperatives: Innovations in Rights, Participation, and Economic Citizenship

[Report by the Task Force on Democracy, Economic Security, and Social Justice in a Volatile World]. Washington, DC: American Political Science Association.

[BOOK REVIEW] Sarah S. Stroup. Borders among Activists: International NGOs in the United States, Britain, and France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. x + 246 pp. $39.95.

[Review of ]. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36592.

A Gap between Ambition and Effectiveness

Journal of Civil Society, 7(3), 287–292.

Accountability of Transnational NGOs: Aspirations vs. Practice

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 41(6), 1176–1195.

Corporations and NGOs: When Accountability leads to Co-optation

Journal of Business Ethics, 106(1), 9–21.

How does CCCD Affect Program Effectiveness and Sustainability? A Meta Review of Plan’s Evaluations

Syracuse: Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizational Effectiveness: A Modern Synthesis

Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 23(2), 434–457.

Transnational NGOs and Human Rights in a post-9/11 World

In Human Rights in the 21st Century. Continuity and Change since 9/11 (pp. 203–221). Palgrave/MacMillan.

Advocacy organizations, networks, and the firm analogy

In Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action (pp. 229–251). Cambridge University Press.

Beyond Norms and Interests: Understanding the Evolution of Transnational Human Rights Activism

International Journal of Human Rights, 14(3), 442–459.

Navigating Effectiveness; Humanitarian & Development

Navigating Effectiveness; Humanitarian & Development. In NGOs Domain Blog. The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University.

The Globalization of Human Rights Norms: Understanding the Opportunities and Limits of International Law and Transnational Activism

In Globalizing Justice. Critical Perspectives on Transnational Law and the Cross-Border Migration of Legal Norms (pp. 121–139). State University of New York Press.

Transnational Human Rights Networks: Significance and Challenges

In The International Studies Encyclopedia (pp. 7189–7208). Wiley-Blackwell.

[BOOK REVIEW] Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law and Domestic Politics. By Beth A. Simmons. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 468p. $28.99.

Perspectives on Politics, 8(3), 994–995.

Bracing for impact

Monday Developments, 27(4), 20–22.

Rights-Based Approach to Development. Learning from Guatemala; a report commissioned by Plan International Guatemala

Plan International Guatemala TNGO Initiative/Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

Setting Higher Goals: Rights and Development

Monday Developments, 27(12), 19–20.

Teaching the EU and Europe: Visiting Home with a US Perspective

EUSA Review, 22(1), 11–12.

Transnational NGO Interview Study (in Stata, SPSS and Excel formats)

[Data set]. National Science Foundation.

Human rights education (HRE) and transnational activism

Human Rights Quarterly, 29(4), 973–993.

[BOOK REVIEW] Peaceful Resistance. Advancing Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms. By Robert M. Press. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 227p. $99.50. The New Transnational Activism. By Sidney Tarrow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[Review of ]. Perspectives on Politics, 5(2), 413–415.

[BOOK REVIEW] Unexpected Power. Conflict and Change among Transnational Activists, by Shareen Hertel, Ithaca: Cornell UP 2006.

[Review of ]. Global Change, Peace, and Security, 19(2), 162–164.

A Science of Humanitarian Action?

[Review of ]. International Studies Review, 8(3), 501–503.

The new transnationalism and comparative politics

Comparative Politics, 38(4), 479–500.

Transnational mobilization and domestic regime change: Africa in comparative perspective

Palgrave Macmillan.

International Relations

In The Social Science Encyclopedia, edited Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper, 3rd edition (pp. 521–526). Routledge.

Domestic and transnational perspectives on democratization

International Studies Review, 6(3), 403–426.

Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and Americas Response

International Journal, 60(1), 300.

Globalization and Human Rights, by A

Development in Practice, 13(4), 417–418.

Die Macht der Menschenrechte. Internationale Normen, kommunikatives Handeln und politischer Wandel in den Ländern des Südens

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.

International human rights

In Handbook of International Relations (pp. 517–537). Sage.

Nicht-staatliche Akteure und Weltöffentlichkeit. Menschenrechte in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

In Transnationale Öffentlichkeiten und Identitäten im 20. Jahrhundert (pp. 423–444). Campus Verlag.

Menschenrechtswächter: partielle Midlife-Crisis: INGOs, Vereinte Nationen und Weltöffentlichkeit

Vereinte Nationen, 49(1), 7–12.

When Networks Blind: Human Rights and Politics in Kenya

In Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global-Local Networks of Power (pp. 149–172). New York: Cambridge University Press.

[BOOK REVIEW] Constructing World Culture. International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875, by John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.), Stanford University Press.

[Review of ]. Contemporary Sociology, 30(4), 390–391.

Mobilizing identities: transnational social movements and the promotion of human rights

In Global Institutions and Local Empowerment. Competing Theoretical Perspectives (pp. 85–113). MacMillan Press.

International factors in processes of political democratization: towards a theoretical integration

In Democracy without borders: Transnationalization and conditionality in new democracies (pp. 23–41). Routledge.

Transnational activism and political change in Kenya and Uganda

In The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change (pp. 39–77). Cambridge University Press.

Die Macht der Menschenrechte. Zur innenpolitischen Durchsetzung internationaler Normen

Aus Politik Und Zeitgeschichte, 43–53.

Internationale Menschenrechtsnormen, transnationale Netzwerke und politischer Wandel in den Ländern des Südens

Zeitschrift Für Internationale Beziehungen, 5(1), 5–41.

Kenya and Uganda: Defining and Diffusing Democracy in a Transnational World

L'Afrique Politique 1998, 227–244.

Spirale des Einflusses: Wie lassen sich Menschenrechtsnormen durchsetzen?

Internationale Politik, 53(11), 61–67.

Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NRO) und internationale Menschenrechtspolitik

Comparativ, 7(4), 27–67.

Konflikte in der UNESCO. Eine Überprüfung neorealistischer Thesen zum Nord-Süd-Verhältnis

Zeitschrift Für Internationale Beziehungen, 2(1), 107–139.