• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: How Can Nonprofit Policy Advocacy Influence Policymakers? A Factorial Survey Experiment on the Effects of Nonprofit Advocacy Strategies on Policymakers’ Willingness to Act
  • Contributor: Brusseel, Aaron; Raeymaeckers, Peter; Verschuere, Bram
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2024
  • Published in: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2024)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/08997640241252616
  • ISSN: 0899-7640; 1552-7395
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  • Description: This study investigates how policy advocacy strategies employed by nonprofit organizations (NPOs) affect the willingness of policymakers to act upon policy inputs. In a 2 × 2 full-factorial research experiment, we presented 706 Flemish municipal policymakers with four realistic scenarios describing an advocacy campaign of a local welfare nonprofit. In the scenarios, we apply two modes of advocacy tactics (direct or indirect) and two modes of NPO representation (professional staff members or self-advocates). The findings indicate a high likeliness to act on NPO policy inputs throughout the policy process, albeit with a small drop during the formulation stage. Small but significant increases in likeliness to act are noted when policymakers are confronted with either direct advocacy tactics or professional advocates.