A Swedish culture of advocacy? Civil society organisations’ strategies for political influence
Arvidson, Malin LU ; Scaramuzzino, Roberto LU ; Johansson, Håkan LU and Meeuwisse, Anna LU
(2018)
In Sociologisk Forskning
55(2-3).
p.341-364
- Abstract
- This article sets out to identify a culture of advocacy that has come to characterise Swedish civil society, formed around a long-standing tradition of close and cordial relations between civil society organisations, popular movements, and state and government officials. We argue that Swedish civil society organisations (CSOs) have been allowed to voice critique against public actors and policies and are expected to do so. Based on a large survey of Swedish CSOs, this study contributes unique data on what type of advocacy strategies CSOs practise, and the range of advocacy strategies that organisations employ. The analysis also explores norm-breaking behaviour, such as holding back criticism of public authorities. The results reveal a... (More)
- This article sets out to identify a culture of advocacy that has come to characterise Swedish civil society, formed around a long-standing tradition of close and cordial relations between civil society organisations, popular movements, and state and government officials. We argue that Swedish civil society organisations (CSOs) have been allowed to voice critique against public actors and policies and are expected to do so. Based on a large survey of Swedish CSOs, this study contributes unique data on what type of advocacy strategies CSOs practise, and the range of advocacy strategies that organisations employ. The analysis also explores norm-breaking behaviour, such as holding back criticism of public authorities. The results reveal a complex picture of a culture of advocacy: we find patterns of intense political activity among organisations that admit they hold back in their criticism of public authorities and the use of a wide range of advocacy strategies. The article contributes to and challenges established advocacy research and analyses established patterns of organisations’ advocacy activities with the symbolic acts of breaking norms, as an analytical approach for the study of advocacy strategies in general and advocacy culture in particular. (Less)
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- Arvidson, Malin
LU
; Scaramuzzino, Roberto
LU
; Johansson, Håkan
LU
and Meeuwisse, Anna
LU
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- 2018
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- keywords
- advocacy strategies, political influence, critical voice function, civil society organizations, advocacy culture
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- Sociologisk Forskning
- volume
- 55
- issue
- 2-3
- pages
- 23 pages
- publisher
- Sveriges Sociologförbund
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- scopus:85051369183
- ISSN
- 2002-066X
- project
- Beyond the welfare state: Europeanization of Swedish civil society organizations (EUROCIV)
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 1ac9acb8-d931-4de0-b376-7350ff7ad123
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