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Eve Sandberg
Eve Sandberg of Strategic Research Inc. and Oberlin College presents on “Reconceptionalizing the Evolving Issues of NGO-African State Relations.”
Eve Sandberg
President, Strategic Research Inc. Associate Professor of Politics, Oberlin College
 
In addition to teaching in the Politics Department at Oberlin College, Eve Sandberg is President of Strategic Research Inc., an Ohio, U.S.A. based company that specializes in campaigns, advocacy, and policy work. Sandberg previously taught in the Political Science Departments at Yale University and Columbia University. She has also served as the Assistant Director of Columbia University’s Institute for African Affairs. Her overseas consulting has included assignments in Zambia, Tanzania, Namibia, Morocco, and most recently Ethiopia (April-July 2006). Ms. Sandberg’s publications include work on: International Monetary Fund and World Bank structural adjustment programs; political party evolution and party rivalries; U.S. and international non governmental organizations; globalization; trade, foreign aid and development issues; women and development; and democratization. Ms. Sandberg has been working in electoral campaigns and advocacy organizations in the United States for three decades at all levels of competition and her advocacy work has largely focused on issues of U.S. foreign policy and legislation for women, labor, and people of color.
 
Paper/Presentation: “Reconceptionalizing the Evolving Issues of NGO- African State Relations”
     
This paper analyzes the evolving issues between NGOs and African states since the pre-independence period. The paper tracks the evolution of NGO – African state relations from the pre- independence period, through the independence period of the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the rule of single-party states, under the impact of natural disasters, under the shocks of liberalization and IMF structural adjustment programs, and during the period of transitions to multi-party democracies. In light of the African experience, this paper re-conceptionalizes several prominent theories of NGO-state relations, such as the Social Origins theory best elaborated by Salamon and Anheier and the associational capital and civil society argument so well elaborated by Putnam and de Tocqueville scholars.
     
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