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Brian O’Connell, founding president of INDEPENDENT SECTOR, in his incredibly widely cited claim, termed advocacy “the quintessential function of the voluntary sector” (O’Neill, 1989, p. 114). The subtext of that claim undoubtedly accounts for its broad resonance among functionaries in the nonprofit sector: nonprofit organizations (translated into the latest resonant language, “civil society institutions”) can be expected to leap into the breach to represent the interests of the poor and physically disadvantaged who are unable to represent themselves in the rough-and-tumble of U.S. interest group politics. That sense of advocacy is the focus of our interest and motivation for the analysis that follows, even though we are convinced that advocacy cannot be understood by studying it in isolation.
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McCarthy, J.D., Castelli, J. (2002). The Necessity for Studying Organizational Advocacy Comparatively. In: Flynn, P., Hodgkinson, V.A. (eds) Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0533-4_6
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