Progress in Development Studies· 2026Q2
Exploring and Reorienting the Debate on the Legitimacy of Civil Society Advocacy
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This paper reorients the debate on civil society advocacy legitimacy, moving beyond implicit assumptions and limited scope in existing research to identify key themes, insights, and knowledge gaps.
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Key points
- The legitimacy of civil society advocacy is a critical but often implicitly studied aspect of civil society legitimacy.
- Existing research on advocacy legitimacy in development has yielded limited specific insights.
- The paper identifies key themes, limitations, and knowledge gaps in the literature on civil society advocacy legitimacy.
- It aims to reorient the debate by providing a structured overview and highlighting innovative contributions.
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Abstract
Understanding and assessing the legitimacy of civil society advocacy is important given its critical role as a form of development intervention. However, this legitimacy has been left implicit in much study on civil society legitimacy, and its study has been skewed towards a limited set of aspects. In this article, we identify key themes in the debate on civil society legitimacy and show how advocacy legitimacy has been addressed. We also discuss the extent to which research on advocacy legitimacy in the development context has yielded specific insights. We identify key learnings emerging from these literatures as well as limitations and knowledge gaps. We position the papers in this issue in relation to the existing literature and present key innovative elements and insights emerging from them.
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