Confronting power : the practice of policy advocacy /

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Author / Creator:Unsicker, Jeff, 1950-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, c2013.
Description:xi, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Social policy -- Citizen participation.
Social planning -- Citizen participation.
Political planning -- Citizen participation.
Social advocacy.
Social change.
Political planning -- Citizen participation.
Social advocacy.
Social change.
Social planning -- Citizen participation.
Social policy -- Citizen participation.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8977258
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ISBN:9781565495340
1565495349
9781565495333 (cloth : alk. paper)
1565495330 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781565495357 (library networkable e-edition)
1565495357 (library networkable e-edition)
9781565495364 (consumer e-edition)
1565495365 (consumer e-edition)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One.
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conceptual Maps
  • Case A: A Small Town in Peru Battles a Multinational Mining Corporation
  • 3. Advocacy Circles
  • Basic Elements
  • Case B: Vermonters Advocate to Close a Nuclear Power Plant
  • 4. Advocacy Circles: Intersections
  • Part Two.
  • Case C: BRAC Advocacy Unit, Bangladesh
  • What Next?
  • 5. Advocates
  • Building Capacity
  • Case D: Research and Advocacy for a Ghana AIDS Commission
  • 6. Policy
  • Problems, Causes and Solutions
  • Case E: Oxfam America Climate Change Campaign
  • Political Mapping
  • 7. Politics
  • Formal and Nonformal Power
  • Case F: Safe Power Vermont Coalition
  • Phase Two of Advocacy to Close the Nuclear Reactor
  • 8. Strategy
  • People Power and Other Methods
  • Case G: Kids Are Priority One Coalition in Vermont
  • Framing the Message
  • 9. Advocacy Communications
  • (Re)Framing and Story Telling
  • Case H: Oxfam America Climate Change Campaign
  • Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
  • 10. Advocacy Evaluation and Learning
  • Index