Confronting power : the practice of policy advocacy /
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Author / Creator: | Unsicker, Jeff, 1950- |
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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 |
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