Hans Peter Schmitz

Schmitz, H. P. (2024). The Giving Pledge. In H. K. Anheier & S. Toepler (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Toepler, Springer.

Mitchell, G. E., Schmitz, H. P., Nerothin, P., Pontes, M., & Walsh, C. (2024). Who Governs Transnational NGOs? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Board Composition. Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs.

Mitchell, G. E., Schmitz, H. P., Nerothin, P., Pontes, M., & Walsh, C. (2023). Board Diversity of International NGOs. Academy of Management Conference. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA.

Schmitz, H. P. (2023). 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.

Schmitz, H. P. (2023). Philanthropy and Heroism. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17125-3_367-1

Bukalova, N., & Schmitz, H. P. (2023). 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.

Schmitz, H. P. (2023). 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. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0892679423000217

Pontes, M., & Schmitz, H. P. (2022). Coronado Floral Association. Bringing together California’s Coronado Community [Teaching case]. San Diego, CA: Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies.

Berger, T., Holzscheiter, A., Jetschke, A., Schmitz, H. P., & Esguerra, A. (2022). Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse. International Studies Review, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viac039

Schmitz, H. P. (2022). The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management. Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 8(1), 157–159. https://doi.org/10.20899/jpna.8.1.157-159

Schmitz, H. P., & Mitchell, G. E. (2022). Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture. International Studies Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viac042

Schmitz, H. P. (2022). 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. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2022.38305

Schmitz, H. P. (2022, May 20). What’s the Giving Pledge? A philanthropy scholar explains. The Chronicle of Philanthropy/The Conversation (US). Retrieved from https://www.philanthropy.com/article/whats-the-giving-pledge-a-philanthropy-scholar-explains

Schmitz, H. P., & McCollim, E. M. (2021). Billionaires in Global Philanthropy: a Decade of the Giving Pledge. Society, 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-021-00580-0

Schmitz, H. P. (2021). Civil Society, 4th ed. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.18666/jnel-2021-10909

Schmitz, H. P., Mitchell, G. E., & McCollim, E. M. (2021). 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-021-00338-6

Schmitz, H. P., Mitchell, G. E., & McCollim, E. M. (2021, July 22). MacKenzie Scott, The Giving Pledge, And Rival Discourses of Billionaire Philanthropy. HistPhil. Retrieved from https://histphil.org/2021/07/22/mackenzie-scott-the-giving-pledge-and-rival-discourses-of-billionaire-philanthropy/

Mitchell, G. E., & Schmitz, H. P. (2021). To Remain Relevant, CSOs Need to Fix the Architecture. Retrieved from International Civil Society Centre website: https://icscentre.org/2021/02/19/to-remain-relevant-csos-need-to-fix-the-architecture/

Mitchell, G. E., & Schmitz, H. P. (2023). 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-021-00409-8

Schmitz, H. P. (2020, June 5). A Window into the Hearts and Minds of Billionaire Donors. The Conversation (US). Retrieved from https://wordandway.org/2020/06/05/a-window-into-the-hearts-and-minds-of-billionaire-donors/

Schmitz, H. P. (2020, June 11). A review of motives from Giving Pledge signatories. Philanthropy Daily. Retrieved from https://philanthropydaily.com/motives-giving-pledge-signatories/

Mitchell, G. E., Schmitz, H. P., & Vijfeijken, T. B.-van. (2020). Between Power and Irrelevance. The Future of Transnational NGOs. In Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190084714.001.0001

Tallack, B., Bruno-van Vijfeijken, T., Mitchell, G. E., & Schmitz, H. P. (2020, June 24). COVID-19 and the Urgency of Long-term Strategy. InterAction.

Schmitz, H. P., Dedmon, J. M., Bruno-van Vijfeijken, T., & Mahoney, J. (2020). Democratizing advocacy?: How digital tools shape international non-governmental activism. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 17(2), 174–191. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2019.1710643

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

Schmitz, H. P., & McCollim, E. (2019). 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.

Hall, N., Schmitz, H. P., & Dedmon, J. M. (2019, November 12). Fridays for Future: How Young Climate Strikers Are Teaching NGOs a Lesson. SAIS Perspectives. Retrieved from https://www.saisperspectives.com/2020-issue/2019/11/8/fridays-for-future-how-young-climate-strikers-are-teaching-ngos-a-lesson

Schmitz, H. P. (2019). 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. (2019). In Routledge Handbook of International NGOs and International Relations.

Lam, M., Schmitz, H. P., & Labigne, A. (2019). 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.

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

Schmitz, H. P., McCollim, E., & Mitchell, G. E. (2019). 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.

Hall, N., Schmitz, H. P., & Dedmon, J. M. (2020). Transnational Advocacy and NGOs in the Digital Era: New Forms of Networked Power. International Studies Quarterly, 64(1), 159–167. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqz052

Boyer, E. J., Kolpakov, A., & Schmitz, H. P. (2018). 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2018.1480392

Schmitz, H. P. (2018). International Criminal Accountability and Transnational Advocacy Networks (TAns) (A. Gheciu & W. C. Wohlforth, Eds.). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.013.47

Mitchell, G. E., & Schmitz, H. P. (2018). The Nexus of Public and Nonprofit Management. Public Performance & Management Review, 42(1), 11–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2018.1489293

Schmitz, H. P. (2017). Digital Media and Peace, The Next Decade. Kroc Peace Magazine, 2017-18, 44–45.

Gneiting, U., & Schmitz, H. P. (2016). 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czv125

Deitrick, L., Schuman, M. J., Lam, M., Schmitz, H. P., Durnford, J., Tinkler, T., … Davari, A. (2016). State of Nonprofits and Philanthropy in San Diego. San Diego, CA: Caster Family Center.

Schmitz, H. P. (2016). 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).

Shiffman, J., Peter Schmitz, H., Berlan, D., Smith, S. L., Quissell, K., Gneiting, U., & Pelletier, D. (2016). The emergence and effectiveness of global health networks: findings and future research. Health Policy and Planning, 31(suppl 1), i110–i123. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czw012

Davies, T. R., Schmitz, H. P., Appe, S., Barragan-Teran, D., Owinga, B., Raggo, P. G., & Lei, X. I. E. (2016). Transnational Associations and INGOs: Macro-Associations. In The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations (pp. 874–893). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-26317-9_34

Shiffman, J., Quissell, K., Schmitz, H. P., Pelletier, D. L., Smith, S. L., Berlan, D., … Walt, G. (2015). A framework on the emergence and effectiveness of global health networks. Health Policy and Planning, 31(suppl 1), i3–i16. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czu046

Schmitz, H. P., & Mitchell, G. E. (2015). The Other Side of the Coin: NGOs, Rights‐Based Approaches, and Public Administration. Public Administration Review, 76(2), 252–262. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12479

Schmitz, H. P. (2015). The global health network on alcohol control: successes and limits of evidence-based advocacy. Health Policy and Planning, 31(suppl 1), i87–i97. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czu064

Schmitz, H. P. (2014). Addressing non-communicable diseases: the role of the United States government, philanthropies, and civil society. Dialogue (King's College London), (7), 23–24.

Schmitz, H. P. (2014). [Review of Book Review: Importing democracy: The role of NGOs in South Africa, Tajikistan, and Argentina, by Fisher, J.]. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 0899764014556734. SAGE Publications.

Schmitz, H. P. (2014). Non-State Actors in Human Rights Promotion. In The Sage Handbook of Human Rights (pp. 352–372). Sage.

Schmitz, H. P. (2014). [Review of 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.]. Perspectives on Politics, 12(04), 973–974. Cambridge University Press.

Mwangi, W., Rieth, L., & Schmitz, H. P. (2013). Encouraging Greater Compliance: Local Networks and the United Nations Global Compact. Cambridge University Press.

Schmitz, H. P. (2013). [Review of Global health governance]. Global public health, 8(8), 976–977. Routledge.

Schmitz, H. P., & Sikkink, K. (2013). International human rights. In Handbook of International Relations (pp. 827–851). Sage.

Lecy, J. D., Mergel, I. A., & Schmitz, H. P. (2013). Networks in Public Administration: Current scholarship in review. Public Management Review, 16(5), 643–665. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2012.743577

Mitchell, G. E., & Schmitz, H. P. (2013). Principled instrumentalism: a theory of transnational NGO behaviour. Review of International Studies, 40(3), 487–504. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210513000387

Schmitz, H. P. (2013). 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.

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

Bloodgood, E. A., & Schmitz, H. P. (2013). The INGO research agenda. A community approach to challenges in method and theory. In Routledge Handbook of International Organization (pp. 67–79). Routledge.

Schmitz, H. P. (2013). [Review of [Book Review] Jack Donnelly. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 3rd edition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.]. H-Diplo, H-Net Review. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39846.

Schmitz, H. P. (2012). A Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) in Practice: Evaluating NGO Development Efforts. Polity, 44(4), 523–541. https://doi.org/10.1057/pol.2012.18

Schmitz, H. P. (2012). Borders among Activists, by S.S. Stroup, Cornell UP, [Review of Borders among Activists, by S. S. Stroup]. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. Retrieved from https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/30439/schmitz-stroup-borders-among-activists-international-ngos-united-states

Goodhart, M., Fung, A., Gauri, V., Gloppen, S., Haagh, L., Heller, P., … Wing, S. (2012). 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.

Schmitz, H. P. (2012). [Review of [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.]. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36592.

Bruno-van Vijfeijken, T., & Schmitz, H. P. (2011). A Gap between Ambition and Effectiveness. Journal of Civil Society, 7(3), 287–292. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2011.604998

Schmitz, H., Raggo, P., & Bruno-van Vijfeijken, T. (2012). Accountability of Transnational NGOs: Aspirations vs. Practice. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 41(6), 1176–1195. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764011431165

Baur, D., & Schmitz, H. P. (2012). Corporations and NGOs: When Accountability leads to Co-optation. Journal of Business Ethics, 106(1), 9–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-1057-9

Bruno-van Vijfeijken, T., Gneiting, U., & Schmitz, H. P. (2011). How does CCCD Affect Program Effectiveness and Sustainability? A Meta Review of Plan’s Evaluations. Syracuse: Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

Lecy, J., Schmitz, H. P., & Swedlund, H. (2012). Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizational Effectiveness: A Modern Synthesis. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 23(2), 434–457. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-011-9204-6

Schmitz, H. P. (2011). 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.

Lecy, J. D., Mitchell, G. E., & Schmitz, H. P. (2010). Advocacy organizations, networks, and the firm analogy. In Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action (pp. 229–251). Cambridge University Press.

Rodio, E. B., & Schmitz, H. P. (2010). Beyond Norms and Interests: Understanding the Evolution of Transnational Human Rights Activism. International Journal of Human Rights, 14(3), 442–459. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642980802535575

Mitchell, G. E., & Schmitz, H. P. (2010). Navigating Effectiveness; Humanitarian & Development. In NGOs Domain Blog. The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University.

Schmitz, H. P. (2010). 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.

Schmitz, H. P. (2010). Transnational Human Rights Networks: Significance and Challenges. In The International Studies Encyclopedia (pp. 7189–7208). Wiley-Blackwell.

Schmitz, H. P. (2010). [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.

Schmitz, H. P., & Mitchell, G. E. (2009). Bracing for impact. Monday Developments, 27(4), 20–22.

Bruno-van Vijfeijken, T., Gneiting, U., Schmitz, H. P., & Valle, O. (2009). 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.

Bruno-van Vijfeijken, T., Gneiting, U., Gomez, R., & Schmitz, H. P. (2009). Setting Higher Goals: Rights and Development. Monday Developments, 27(12), 19–20.

Schmitz, H. P. (2009). Teaching the EU and Europe: Visiting Home with a US Perspective. EUSA Review, 22(1), 11–12.

Hermann, M. G., Lecy, J. D., Mitchell, G. E., Pagé, P., Raggo, P., Schmitz, H. P., & Viñuela, L. (2009). Transnational NGO Interview Study (in Stata, SPSS and Excel formats) [Data set]. National Science Foundation.

Mihr, A., & Schmitz, H. P. (2007). Human rights education (HRE) and transnational activism. Human Rights Quarterly, 29(4), 973–993. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2007.0046

Schmitz, H. P. (2007). [Review of [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.]. Perspectives on Politics, 5(2), 413–415.

Schmitz, H. P. (2007). [Review of [BOOK REVIEW] Unexpected Power. Conflict and Change among Transnational Activists, by Shareen Hertel, Ithaca: Cornell UP 2006.]. Global Change, Peace, and Security, 19(2), 162–164.

Schmitz, H. P. (2006). [Review of A Science of Humanitarian Action?]. International Studies Review, 8(3), 501–503.

Orenstein, M. A., & Schmitz, H. P. (2006). The new transnationalism and comparative politics. Comparative Politics, 38(4), 479–500. https://doi.org/10.2307/20434013

Schmitz, H. P. (2006). Transnational mobilization and domestic regime change: Africa in comparative perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.

Schmitz, H. P. (2005). International Relations. In The Social Science Encyclopedia, edited Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper, 3rd edition (pp. 521–526). Routledge.

Schmitz, H. P. (2004). Domestic and transnational perspectives on democratization. International Studies Review, 6(3), 403–426. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1521-9488.2004.00423.x

Schmitz, H. P., & Shattuck, J. (2004). Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and Americas Response. International Journal, 60(1), 300. https://doi.org/10.2307/40204042

Schmitz, H. P. (2003). Globalization and Human Rights, by A. Development in Practice, 13(4), 417–418.

Risse, T., Jetschke, A., & Schmitz, H. P. (2002). Die Macht der Menschenrechte. Internationale Normen, kommunikatives Handeln und politischer Wandel in den Ländern des Südens. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.

Schmitz, H. P., & Sikkink, K. (2002). International human rights. In Handbook of International Relations (pp. 517–537). Sage.

Schmitz, H. P. (2002). 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.

Schmitz, H. P. (2001). Menschenrechtswächter: partielle Midlife-Crisis: INGOs, Vereinte Nationen und Weltöffentlichkeit. Vereinte Nationen, 49(1), 7–12.

Schmitz, H. P. (2001). 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.

Schmitz, H. P. (2001). [Review of [BOOK REVIEW] Constructing World Culture. International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875, by John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.), Stanford University Press.]. Contemporary Sociology, 30(4), 390–391.

Schmitz, H.-P. (2000). 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.

Schmitz, H. P., & Sell, K. (1999). 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.

Schmitz, H. P. (1999). 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.

Schmitz, H. P., Jetschke, A., & Risse, T. (1998). Die Macht der Menschenrechte. Zur innenpolitischen Durchsetzung internationaler Normen. Aus Politik Und Zeitgeschichte, 43–53.

Gränzer, S., Jetschke, A., Risse, T., & Schmitz, H. P. (1998). Internationale Menschenrechtsnormen, transnationale Netzwerke und politischer Wandel in den Ländern des Südens. Zeitschrift Für Internationale Beziehungen, 5(1), 5–41.

Schmitz, H. P. (1998). Kenya and Uganda: Defining and Diffusing Democracy in a Transnational World. L'Afrique Politique 1998, 227–244.

Jetschke, A., Risse, T., & Schmitz, H. P. (1998). Spirale des Einflusses: Wie lassen sich Menschenrechtsnormen durchsetzen? Internationale Politik, 53(11), 61–67.

Schmitz, H. P. (1997). Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NRO) und internationale Menschenrechtspolitik. Comparativ, 7(4), 27–67.

Schmitz, H. P. (1995). Konflikte in der UNESCO. Eine Überprüfung neorealistischer Thesen zum Nord-Süd-Verhältnis. Zeitschrift Für Internationale Beziehungen, 2(1), 107–139.