Naming & Shaming

The “Boomerang” pattern of Transnational Advocacy Network pressure (Keck & Sikkink 1998: 13)

Naming & Shaming

The “Boomerang” pattern of Transnational Advocacy Network pressure (Keck & Sikkink 1998: 13)

Naming & Shaming

The “Boomerang” pattern of Transnational Advocacy Network pressure (Keck & Sikkink 1998: 13)

Naming & Shaming

information

• activates bystanders

• pressures actors to act

• signals disapproval

• Δ costs of behavior

The “Boomerang” pattern of Transnational Advocacy Network pressure (Keck & Sikkink 1998: 13)

Naming & Shaming

The “Boomerang” pattern of Transnational Advocacy Network pressure (Keck & Sikkink 1998: 13)

Consumers-----

Naming & Shaming by INGOs (ex: The Child Labor

Coalition):

• credible informantion

• knowledge of abuses

• perpetrators know abuses observed

• framed as violators of rights/norms

Naming & Shaming by the Media:

Central to “boomerang process”

•receives information from targets, activists

•investigates, publicizes, denounces

•shames others into action

Naming & Shaming by IGOs (examples: ILO, UNICEF):

•credible info re: abuses

•increases real costs

•targets can’t risk loss of resources, allies, legitimacy

Action… by whom?

Action… by whom?

Individuals;

Consumers

States

Firms

IOs