Together Making a Difference: A Configurational Study of Nonprofit Advocacy Effectiveness

Zhang, Zhibin; Guo, Chao

doi:10.1080/15309576.2020.1724163

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“…In line with the literature, resources (Eising, 2007;Dür and Mateo, 2016), tactics, and venue-shopping (Bouwen, 2004;Beyers, 2004;Binderkrantz et al, 2014) are recognized as core variables significantly associated with policy influence. This multidimensionality of interest group influence cannot be explained by a single causal condition (Zhang and Guo, 2020). However, according to many scholars, the models used in most quantitative studies of interest group influence fail to capture the essence of the nature of lobbying, as many important variables are omitted from the majority of studies on this subject (Baumgartner and Leech, 1998;Lowery et al, 2012;Halpin and Jordan, 2012).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework Of the Determinants Of Policy Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researchers investigating ENGOs' policy influence have focused more on how ENGOs collectively shape environmental policies than comparisons of their relative influence. Influence in this context equates with effectiveness as described in the non-profit advocacy literature (e.g., Zhang and Guo, 2020). Unlike the literature on participation in advocacy, there is limited knowledge of the effectiveness of non-profit organizations' advocacy activities (Zhang and Guo, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Influence in this context equates with effectiveness as described in the non-profit advocacy literature (e.g., Zhang and Guo, 2020). Unlike the literature on participation in advocacy, there is limited knowledge of the effectiveness of non-profit organizations' advocacy activities (Zhang and Guo, 2020). The literature on interest group influence, however, presents extensive information that allows us to build a framework to explain why some ENGOs are influential and others are not.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…ENGOs' tactics are complementary with material resources and reinforce each other, which is why the logic of combination becomes appropriate (Dür and Mateo, 2016). Nevertheless, with some important exceptions (see, for example, Colli, 2019Colli, , 2020Zhang and Guo, 2020), our knowledge of how these combined factors lead to advocacy success is limited. In other words, the manner in which these conditions interact to generate influence remains poorly understood.…”

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Configurational analysis of environmental NGOs and their influence on environmental policy in Turkey

Bey

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) have emerged as important actors with regard to their interest in encouraging and supporting the dissemination of environmental policies. A key starting point in the examination of ENGOs and their influence on environmental policy is to highlight their decisions to affect policy processes as a means of achieving environmental protection. Hence, ENGOs need resources and it is equally important that they effectively employ those resources to achieve environmental policy influence. ENGO lobbying is a process in which different causal conditions interact with one another to affect environmental policy. However, minimal attention has been paid to how different conditions occurring together exert influence. This paper argues that it is the combined effect of resources and effective strategies that enables ENGOs to exert policy influence. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is used to test the combined nature of different conditions. A dataset created in 2019 that includes 38 ENGOs from Turkey reveals that the combination of multiple interchangeable conditions leads to high ENGO policy influence. The findings suggest that advocacy effectiveness is achieved via two different causal paths. The first path entails having a large staff size, lobbying multiple venues, and using both inside and outside lobbying tactics, while the second involves large membership size, the use of both inside and outside lobbying, and lobbying multiple venues. This study suggests an alternative way of using the determinants of environmental policy influence and offers a new perspective for ENGO leaders to influence environmental policy.

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Section: Theoretical Framework Of the Determinants Of Policy Influencementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Configurational analysis of environmental NGOs and their influence on environmental policy in Turkey

Bey

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…Recent research has theorized and conceptualized such phenomena featuring multidimensionality as configurations (Fiss, 2007; Misangyi et al, 2017). Defined as a “multidimensional constellation of conceptually distinct characteristics that commonly occur together” (Meyer, Tsui, & Hinings, 1993, p. 1175), configurations have increasingly become a research focus in nonprofit studies (Hager & Brudney, 2015; Li, 2019; Zhang & Guo, 2019, 2020). Characterized by an assemblage or combination of interdependent parts, configurations involve complex cause–effect relationships in which “outcomes cannot be fully inferred from their constitutive parts analyzed in isolation” (Simon, 1996, p. 184).…”

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No advocacy without representation? Nonprofit representational mix and nonprofit advocacy

Zhang

Guo

2021

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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Nonprofit representation as a multidimensional notion is inherently interrelated with nonprofit advocacy. This multidimensional nature of representation, however, was largely overlooked in prior empirical literature that predominantly focused on the independent effect of individual representational dimensions on advocacy. This article addresses this limitation by identifying the “representational mixes”—combinations of multiple representational dimensions—that bring about specific outcomes of nonprofit advocacy. Drawing on data from nonprofit organizations in three provinces of China and applying a corresponding configurational approach of fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis, the findings confirm three propositions, namely the conjunctural, equifinal, and asymmetric causation underneath the complex relationship between nonprofit representation and nonprofit advocacy. This study thus contributes a fresh configurational perspective to understanding nonprofit representation in relation to nonprofit advocacy.

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A Quantitative Analysis of Policy and Sociocultural Advocacy Within a Neo-corporatist Context

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Together Making a Difference: A Configurational Study of Nonprofit Advocacy Effectiveness

Cited by 8 publications

References 74 publications

Configurational analysis of environmental NGOs and their influence on environmental policy in Turkey

Configurational analysis of environmental NGOs and their influence on environmental policy in Turkey

No advocacy without representation? Nonprofit representational mix and nonprofit advocacy

A Quantitative Analysis of Policy and Sociocultural Advocacy Within a Neo-corporatist Context

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