A Calmly Disruptive Insider: The Case of an Institutionalized Advocacy Organization at Work |
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| Authors: | Mirella Landriscina |
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| Institution: | (1) Mirella Landriscina, St. Joseph’s College, Social Sciences Department, 245 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA |
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| Abstract: | Through a case study of a leading service provider organization in Philadelphia, this paper explores the advocacy work of
a publicly funded, professionalized, institutionalized nonprofit organization. In this article I relate how in the spring
of 2002, staff at the organization responded to a recurring political issue: local business groups were again calling for
official action against “aggressive panhandlers” in the downtown district. I use ethnographic and historical data to show
that the organization’s institutionalization and ties to the public sector have allowed staff to develop resources and skills
for being both contentious claim-makers and influential actors in the institutional political arena.
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| Keywords: | Privatization Nonprofit organizations Advocacy Homelessness Social movements |
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