Finally, international donors tend to
support professional NGOs rather than grassroots (Spires, 2011b). Professional
NGOs initially have much stronger attitudes towards collaboration than
grassroots (Ansell, 2003; see also Eliasoph, 2009). Thus our first hypothesis
is the following: Globally integrated
NGOs have more incoming and outgoing ties with other civic organization than
NGOs without international integration. In other words, globally integrated
NGOs are simultaneously more popular and more active. Hence, in the context of
ERGM we expect positive and significant parameters for popularity and activity
effects for nodes attributed as globally integrated. Confirmation of this
hypothesis is the argument in favor of supporters of global connectedness.