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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
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Civic Engagement and Nonprofit Lobbying in California, 1998-2003

David F. Suárez

University of Southern California

Hokyu Hwang

Stanford University

Which types of nonprofit organizations make claims to the state by lobbying and what explains their involvement in the activity? Although many studies focus on organization-level characteristics, the authors argue that nonprofit lobbying is driven by two different dynamics that operate at the field level: cross-sector competition and social change mission. Analyzing data on nonprofit organizations in California from 1998 to 2003, the authors show that nonprofits in mission-driven fields are more likely to lobby than nonprofits in other fields, but cross-sector competition does not seem to influence lobbying at the field level. The authors also find that many organization-level characteristics matter and nonprofits with lobbying experience tend to make the activity a regular component of their organizational repertoire. These findings have a variety of implications for work on civic engagement and the authors conclude with a discussion of the implications.

Key Words: advocacy • public policy • civic engagement • lobbying

This version was published on March 1, 2008

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, 93-112 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0899764007304467


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