Elite networks for environmental philanthropy: shaping environmental agendas in the twenty-first century

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2021-07-06 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2021.1942604

Jeanine Cunningham, Michael C. Dreiling

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ABSTRACT Examining all donations of one-million dollars or more to environmental and animal-related causes from 2000–10 in the U.S., this paper employs network methodologies to identify structural patterns in elite philanthropy. Employing k-plex algorithms, analysis demonstrates robust, overlapping donor-recipient ties forming meaningful subcomponents within the larger network. In addition to donor-recipient subgroups that partition along major environmental and animal-related issues, we find politically polarized subcomponents among organizations engaged in energy and climate change. Here it is argued that these observed substructures in the network reflect an intra-elite fracture that mirrors ideological differences of donors and a larger partisan polarization on these issues in the U.S. These findings substantiate a critical theory of foundations and elite philanthropy that accounts for their role in establishing, maintaining, and at times contesting forms of political hegemony favorable to their factional interests.

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环境慈善事业的精英网络:塑造21世纪的环境议程

本文考察了2000 - 2010年间美国对环境和动物相关事业的所有100万美元以上的捐款，运用网络方法来识别精英慈善事业的结构模式。采用k-plex算法，分析证明了在更大的网络中形成有意义的子组件的鲁棒，重叠的供体-受体关系。除了在主要环境和动物相关问题上划分的捐助者-受援国子群体外，我们还发现，在从事能源和气候变化的组织中，政治上存在两极分化的子群体。本文认为，这些观察到的网络中的子结构反映了精英内部的分裂，反映了捐赠者的意识形态差异和美国在这些问题上更大的党派分化。这些发现证实了一个关于基金会和精英慈善事业的批判理论，该理论解释了基金会和精英慈善事业在建立、维持和有时竞争有利于其派系利益的政治霸权形式方面的作用。

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期刊介绍： Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.