CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Stojiljkovic, Ana |
|---|---|
| Title | Ethnic Lobbying in the US |
| Summary | Ethnic lobbies have proven to be influential in shaping US foreign policy. In lobbying US foreign policy makers, lobbies rely on their membership, its voting potentials, organization capacities, campaign donations, and building alliances with other social forces and networks within the policy making bodies. Through presentation of the successes of Serbian lobbying in the US Congress in recent years, compared to the Armenian-American role model case, the general argument made in this thesis is that influencing US Congress’ foreign policy outputs can be achieved by diplomats and government officials, relying on marketing the homeland’s objectives in line with US values and policies and supportive networks in policy making bodies. The findings of this research contradict the habitual beliefs that exerting pressure on foreign policy makers by ethnic groups necessarily relies on the activities of ethnic groups’ members. |
| Supervisor | Meszerics, Tamas |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/stojiljkovic_ana.pdf |
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