Framing by the Flock: Collective Issue Definition and Advocacy Success
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Framing by the Flock : Collective Issue Definition and Advocacy Success. / Junk, Wiebke Marie; Rasmussen, Anne.
In: Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 52, No. 4, 1, 2019, p. 483.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Framing by the Flock
T2 - Collective Issue Definition and Advocacy Success
AU - Junk, Wiebke Marie
AU - Rasmussen, Anne
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The framing of issues is part of the tool kit used by lobbyists in modern policy making, yet the ways in which framing works to affect lobbying success across issues remain underexplored. Analyzing a new dataset of lobbying in the news on 50 policy issues in five European countries, we demonstrate that it is not individual but collective framing that matters: Emphasis frames that enjoy collective backing from lobbying camps of like-minded advocates affect an advocate’s success, rather than frames being voiced by individual advocates. Crucially, it matters for advocacy success whether the advocate’s camp frames its policy goals on an issue in unity with “one voice” and whether the actor’s camp wins the contest of framing the issue vis-à-vis the opposing camp. Our results emphasize the need to consider the collective mechanisms behind the power of framing and have implications for future research on framing as an advocacy tool.
AB - The framing of issues is part of the tool kit used by lobbyists in modern policy making, yet the ways in which framing works to affect lobbying success across issues remain underexplored. Analyzing a new dataset of lobbying in the news on 50 policy issues in five European countries, we demonstrate that it is not individual but collective framing that matters: Emphasis frames that enjoy collective backing from lobbying camps of like-minded advocates affect an advocate’s success, rather than frames being voiced by individual advocates. Crucially, it matters for advocacy success whether the advocate’s camp frames its policy goals on an issue in unity with “one voice” and whether the actor’s camp wins the contest of framing the issue vis-à-vis the opposing camp. Our results emphasize the need to consider the collective mechanisms behind the power of framing and have implications for future research on framing as an advocacy tool.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - interest groups
KW - public policy
KW - framing
KW - media
KW - social movements
U2 - 10.1177/0010414018784044
DO - 10.1177/0010414018784044
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 30886439
VL - 52
SP - 483
JO - Comparative Political Studies
JF - Comparative Political Studies
SN - 0010-4140
IS - 4
M1 - 1
ER -
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