Advocacy

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Advocacy (German: advocacy ) referred to in the political science public influence on the policy-making on behalf of a collective interest. From the advocacy in the broader sense, advocacy differs in that no one's interests are represented exclusively or primarily. Advocacy differs from lobbying in that it involves the public strategically ; H. of an unspecified and directly affected audience. The term advocacy was translated into German as "thematic advocacy interest representation".

Advocacy is mostly carried out by so-called advocacy organizations, which use knowledge, relationships and material resources to generate moral and political pressure. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink have described four political strategies that actors in advocacy networks work with:

  1. “Information politics”, the ability to get politically useful information quickly and credibly to where it has the greatest impact;
  2. "Symbolic politics", the ability to refer to symbols, actions and stories that make a situation understandable even to a distant audience,
  3. “Leverage politics”, the ability to involve actors endowed with power when weaker members of the network have little chance of influencing, as well
  4. “Accountability politics”, which means the attempt to bind actors with political decision-making powers to previously formulated intentions and principles and to remind them to fulfill their mandate responsibly.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Kremers: A Struggle for Law: Cause Lawyering for the Interests of Temporary Migrant Workers in Japan . In: Moritz Bälz (Ed.): Journal for Japanese Law . Special issue 9. Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 2018, p. 174 ( zjapanr.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ German Bundestag: Report of the Study Commission “The Future of Civic Engagement” Civic engagement: on the way to a sustainable civil society . Printed matter 14/8900. Bundesanzeiger Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, June 3, 2002, ISSN  0722-8333 ( bundestag.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Daniel Kremers: Immigration, a common good? : Functions of civil society in the discussion of Japan's technical internship between “human rights” and “human resources” . Hall 2015, DNB  1074116143 .
  4. ^ Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn Sikkink: Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics . Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 1998, ISBN 978-0-8014-7129-2 ( degruyter.com ).