Leveraging Political Resources: Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Wiley Kimberly Kay ()
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Wiley Kimberly Kay: Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-30

Abstract: As politics becomes increasingly polarized, the value of collective political action becomes more visible and overt. Nonprofit organizations act collectively in pursuit of their policy goals in nearly all aspects of public policy. Understanding how nonprofits borne of social movements engage politically expands our insight into advocacy coalition behavior following seemingly effective social movements. The coalition’s leveraging of political resources provides us this insight. This study assesses the policy activities produced or maintained within a U.S. national domestic violence advocacy coalition over its lifetime to determine how and when resources were leveraged. A directed content analysis is conducted on historical data to capture the evolution of coalition activities over a 41-year period. The coalition’s emphasis on policy change waned over time as it achieved its policy goals. The coalition then leaned on its largest resources, mobilizable troops, and information to increasingly emphasize policy implementation and evaluation. These findings indicate that when in the policy process coalitions leverage their political resources may be more important than how coalitions leverage resources. Framing nonprofit political activity across the stages of the policy process can open doors to better use of scarce political resources.

Keywords: advocacy coalition framework; policy process; content analysis; social movements; domestic violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1515/npf-2020-0020

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