Lobbying and Advocacy Beyond the North
a bibliometric exploration of the Internation Scholarship on the Global South
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https://doi.org/10.14244/agenda.2024.3.5Palavras-chave:
Bibliometrics, Bibliometric analysis, comparative politics, Global South, interest groups, advocacy coalition framework;Resumo
Research on lobbying and interest groups has traditionally focused on the Global North, leaving the Global South underexplored in comparative studies. This article addresses that gap by mapping English-language scholarship on interest representation in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Drawing on 162 publications indexed in Scopus (2012–2022), we combine bibliometric analysis with qualitative content review to identify thematic trends, conceptual usage, and authorship patterns. Our findings reveal a shift away from business-centric lobbying toward advocacy on diffuse collective interests such as human rights, gender, and climate governance. Despite this thematic diversification, knowledge production remains concentrated in Global North institutions, reinforcing linguistic and structural hierarchies in the international academic field. We discuss how terminological ambiguity—between “interest groups,” “advocacy,” and “lobbying”—complicates comparative research and argue for conceptual clarity grounded in established frameworks to avoid conceptual stretching. By mapping the intellectual and social structure of this niche, the study contributes to theory-building, highlights methodological strategies for analyzing scholarly networks, and reflects on the implications of linguistic dominance for decolonizing lobbying research.
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