Hans Peter Schmitz
Professor
Bob and Carol Mattocks Distinguished Professor in Nonprofit Leadership
Caldwell Hall NA
Education
PhD Social and Political Sciences European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole
M.A. Political Science, History, and European Ethnology Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Area(s) of Expertise
Hans Peter Schmitz is an expert on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and global advocacy focused on human rights, global health, or economic equity. In his recent work, he explores the role of digital media and billionaire philanthropy in shaping the broader context of global non-governmental activism. The scholarship emphasizes how institutional and normative constraints limit the ability of organized activism to accomplishing lofty missions.
Publications
- 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 (2023)
- Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse , International Studies Review (2022)
- Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture , International Studies Review (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 (2022)
- Billionaires in Global Philanthropy: a Decade of the Giving Pledge , Society (2021)
- How Billionaires Explain Their Philanthropy: A Mixed-Method Analysis of the Giving Pledge Letters , VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (2021)
- Between Power and Irrelevance. The Future of Transnational NGOs , Oxford University Press (2020)
- Democratizing advocacy?: How digital tools shape international non-governmental activism , Journal of Information Technology & Politics (2020)
- International NGO Legitimacy. Challenges and Responses , Routledge Handbook of International NGOs and International Relations (2019)
- Transnational Advocacy and NGOs in the Digital Era: New Forms of Networked Power , International Studies Quarterly (2019)