The purpose of this thesis is to study how three Swedish authorities use advocacy in their
activities. The thesis examines what type of advocacy activities that occur in the authorities
and the change that has taken place between 2009-2016. Comparisons over time are
possible as this study follows up a previous thesis which was based on the same definition
of advocacy.
Authorities' work with avocacy is a relatively unexplored area, wherefore the
study primarily draws on interviews conducted with the three elected authorities:
Energimyndigheten, Försäkringskassan and Havs- och vattenmyndigheten. The collected
material is processed qualitatively using a broad definition of the concept of advocacy and
a framework which identifies four types of advocacy.