advocate
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
Research draft, second pass
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Researched by: Claude
Purpose and description
Let an agent describe advocates and advocacy as a role, distinguish cause advocacy from legal advocacy and from mere enthusiasm, relay ethical and regulatory frameworks for lobbying and representation, and keep statements about individual advocates sourced and neutral.
A person who publicly supports and argues for a cause, policy, idea or group, seeking to persuade others and to influence decisions, whether as an activist, a campaigner, a professional advocate for clients or a spokesperson; in some legal systems advocate is also the title of a lawyer who pleads in court, a separate sense.
What it is for: Arguing for a cause or on behalf of others.
It can be explain kinds of advocate and advocacy; distinguish cause advocacy from legal advocacy; relay lobbying and representation rules; keep descriptions of individuals neutral.
Distinguishing features
Public support for a cause
Persuasion and representation
Voluntary or professional
Subject to lobbying and ethics rules when professional
What it looks like
A person speaking, writing or organising for a cause; no defining physical form.
How it is recognised
Publicly argues for a cause or on behalf of others
Activists, campaigners, professional and patient advocates
A lawyer titled advocate and an enthusiast for a hobby are other senses
Related models
is a kind of - a role a person plays
practises - the activity
is related to - an overlapping role
is confused with - the legal title advocate
In practice
Families and kinds
activists and campaigners
professional lobbyists and public affairs advocates
patient, consumer and disability advocates
self-advocates
advocates for scientific positions
legal advocates as a separate sense
Standards and regulation
Lobbying registration and transparency laws
Charity and non-profit campaigning rules
Professional codes for advocacy organisations
Bar rules for legal advocates in the other sense
Failure modes and hazards
Conflating advocacy with objective expertise
Undisclosed interests
Demeaning labels for supporters of ideas
Unsourced statements about individuals
Analytical facets
- substance
- social
- origin
- conceptual
- agency
- inert
- mobility
- not-applicable
- scale
- not-applicable
- affordances
- observable
Also called
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Where this came from
oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Role What an advocate is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and senses.
Definition
Definition.
- What is an advocate in the sense of a supporter of a cause, and how does it differ from the legal title? definition
- Is the question about cause advocacy, legal advocacy or enthusiasm for a hobby? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What kinds of advocate exist, from activists to professional lobbyists and patient advocates? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Practice How advocacy works.
Practice.
Methods
Methods.
Methods
Methods.
- What methods do advocates use, from campaigning to representation? provenance
- Which entry fits advocacy? action
Ethics
Ethics and disclosure.
Ethics
Ethics.
- What ethical standards and disclosure rules apply to advocates and lobbyists? provenance
- Which entry fits lobbying? action
Assess Assessing advocacy.
Care.
Claims
Advocacy claims.
Claims
Claims.
- How should claims made by advocates be assessed and attributed? action
- Is the advocate position presented as a position rather than as fact? boundary
Individuals
Describing individuals.
Individuals
Individuals.
- How are individual advocates described neutrally and with sources? action
- Is the statement about a living person sourced? boundary
Context History and society.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- How has advocacy developed as a social role, and which references are standard? provenance
- Which entry fits social movements? action
Rights
Rights and protection.
Rights
Rights.
- What protections do advocates and human rights defenders have? provenance
- Which entry fits human rights defenders? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should legal advocate be a separate entry?
- How should lobbying registers be linked?
- The registry entry has merged demeaning aliases such as addict, nut and freak, which are a different sense; they should be removed