| Titre | Des mobilisations discrètes : sur le plaidoyer et quelques transformations de l'action collective contemporaine | |
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| Auteur | Étienne Ollion | |
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Revue | Critique internationale |
| Numéro | no 67, avril-juin 2015 Politiques du plaidoyer | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thema - Politiques du plaidoyer |
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| Page | 17-31 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Discrete Mobilizations: Advocacy and Several Transformations of Contemporary Collective Action Although studies of mobilization have given little attention to advocacy, its practice has elsewhere been the object of conflicting analysis. Some see the proliferation of jobs for “advocates” – salaried employees specifically charged with promoting the political line of the associations that employ them – as a sign of profound transformation. According to this group, the appearance of non-governmental actors with close ties to government is a source of major change for collective action and the political sphere. Others, however, regard the proximity of these forms of action to classic interest groups and political leaders as proof that advocates should be considered lobbyists. The present article draws upon an ethnographic study to examine these theories of the transformative advocate and non-differentiation. The view according to which advocacy constitutes a particular form of lobbying does not allow one to grasp the mechanisms by which this practice spreads and sometimes succeeds. The claim that advocates and lobbyists are much the same also neglects the structural asymmetry between these two groups. This observation calls for bringing greater complexity to bear upon the theory of non-differentiation and serves to qualify the enthusiastic statements of those who defend the idea of the transformational potential of these practices and the “power of NGOs” in the twenty-first century. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=CRII_067_0017 |
