| dc.description.abstract | Advocacy nonprofit organizations play a role in guiding social changes in modern society; they appeal to the government and the society for placing importance on the rights that are ignored for a long time. Same-sex marriage has been one of the issues that attract much attention from the whole world in recent years. Emerging from the developing process of the LGBT movement in Taiwan, Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights is a representative nonprofit organization, which drafted “The Drafted Legislation of the Diversification of Family Structures.” This study adopts document analysis, in-depth interviews, and case study as research methods to explore and discuss advocacy nonprofit organizations’ general conditions of development, modes of operation, strategies of policy advocacy, and modes of network governance. The study firstly discusses the cause of the establishment of Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights, including the building of a social awareness, the initiation and formation of the alliance, and the drafting and promoting of “The Drafted Legislation of the Diversification of Family Structures.” Next, the study discusses the alliance’s organizational operation, including the making and operating of its internal decisions, collaboration and cooperation of the organization, and divergence between different organizations. Finally, the study discusses the alliance’s strategies of advocacy, including administrative lobbying, legislative lobbying, grassroots lobbying, and judicial proceedings. Through the materials acquired from documents and empirical interviews, this study discovers the change in policy-advocating strategies, the factors that influence the promotion of the legislation, and the relationship between strategies of advocacy, network governance, and applications of theories. I hope this study can be the foundation of related research in the future. | en_US |