Manoeuvring towards Success: Reconstruction of the State and Its Effective Campaign Countering Corruption and State Capture

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F23%3A00583481" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/23:00583481 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11230/23:10465232

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/en/artkey/csr-202306-0002_manoeuvring-towards-success-reconstruction-of-the-state-and-its-effective-campaign-countering-corruption-and-s.php" target="_blank" >https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/en/artkey/csr-202306-0002_manoeuvring-towards-success-reconstruction-of-the-state-and-its-effective-campaign-countering-corruption-and-s.php</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/csr.2023.027" target="_blank" >10.13060/csr.2023.027</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Manoeuvring towards Success: Reconstruction of the State and Its Effective Campaign Countering Corruption and State Capture

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In the period from 2013 to 2017, the Czech Parliament passed five bills against corruption. A civil initiative called Reconstruction of the State was heavily involved in the process. Before the 2013 elections, the initiative prompted the candidates running for an MP mandate to publicly commit to supporting selected legislation proposals. The initiative used a variety of advocacy and campaign tactics to support passing the bills after the elections. This paper uses process tracing to answer the following research questions: (1) What path led to this success?, (2) Is there sufficient evidence about the actual role of the initiative in seeing the proposals passed by the Parliament? and (3) What has determined the initiative’s advocacy decisions? The first research question is treated descriptively, focusing on the key milestones in this historically unique advocacy campaign. To answer the second question, we conducted a non-formal counterfactual assessment of whether the absence of the initiative would have resulted in passing fewer proposals. This is important for evaluating civil society’s potential to effectively influence the political process. Finally, in answering the third question, we show that advocacy tactics have markedly changed throughout the Reconstruction of the State campaign. Building on this observation, we argue that tactics are not only policy- or campaign-specific but also change within a single case.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Manoeuvring towards Success: Reconstruction of the State and Its Effective Campaign Countering Corruption and State Capture

Popis výsledku anglicky

In the period from 2013 to 2017, the Czech Parliament passed five bills against corruption. A civil initiative called Reconstruction of the State was heavily involved in the process. Before the 2013 elections, the initiative prompted the candidates running for an MP mandate to publicly commit to supporting selected legislation proposals. The initiative used a variety of advocacy and campaign tactics to support passing the bills after the elections. This paper uses process tracing to answer the following research questions: (1) What path led to this success?, (2) Is there sufficient evidence about the actual role of the initiative in seeing the proposals passed by the Parliament? and (3) What has determined the initiative’s advocacy decisions? The first research question is treated descriptively, focusing on the key milestones in this historically unique advocacy campaign. To answer the second question, we conducted a non-formal counterfactual assessment of whether the absence of the initiative would have resulted in passing fewer proposals. This is important for evaluating civil society’s potential to effectively influence the political process. Finally, in answering the third question, we show that advocacy tactics have markedly changed throughout the Reconstruction of the State campaign. Building on this observation, we argue that tactics are not only policy- or campaign-specific but also change within a single case.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA18-18760S" target="_blank" >GA18-18760S: Transakční aktivismus: české advokační organizace v komparativní perspektivě</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review

ISSN

0038-0288

e-ISSN

0038-0288

Svazek periodika

59

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

593-616

Kód UT WoS článku

001163169400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85185812309