J 2023

Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy : how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices

WAGNER, Paul M., Petr OCELÍK, Antti GRONOW, Tuomas YLÄ-ANTILLA, Florence METZ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy : how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices

Authors

WAGNER, Paul M. (840 United States of America), Petr OCELÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Antti GRONOW (246 Finland), Tuomas YLÄ-ANTILLA (246 Finland) and Florence METZ (528 Netherlands)

Edition

Policy & Politics, Bristol, Policy Press, 2023, 0305-5736

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50601 Political science

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 4.700 in 2022

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/23:00130264

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

UT WoS

000935134800003

Keywords in English

advocacy strategies; ACF; collaboration; beliefs; climate change policy; network analysis; interest groups

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 8/3/2024 10:30, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Abstract

V originále

Advocacy strategies are a key success factor for public, private and third sector actors who participate in and seek to influence policy choices. Despite this, research on policy networks has paid little attention to the forms of advocacy studied by interest groups scholars. The interest groups’ literature differentiates insider from outsider strategies and assumes that interest groups with strong access to policymakers opt for insider strategies, while those with weak access are constrained to the use of outsider strategies. This literature has not considered how the full set of actors that constitute a policy network use advocacy strategies. Furthermore, the insider/outsider dichotomy oversimplifies and neglects the possibility that actors’ choices are interdependent. Using climate change policy network data from four countries that vary by interest group system, we investigate if policy actors’ choices of advocacy strategies are similar to those in their collaboration network and to those with similar policy beliefs as their own. Results show that, irrespective of the context, actors are likely to use the same advocacy strategies as their collaboration partners and those whose policy beliefs are like their own. This research demonstrates the value of using a policy network approach to move beyond the insider/outsider dichotomy on interest groups’ use of advocacy strategies. It makes a clear contribution to this scholarship by advancing the debate on strategies that policy actors employ to influence policymaking through evidencing interdependencies between the strategies used by policy actors due to belief similarity and a ‘networking effect’.

Links

MUNI/A/1196/2022, interní kód MU
Name: Perspektivy evropské integrace v kontextu globální politiky V
Investor: Masaryk University, Perspectives of European Integration in the Context of Global Politics V

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