| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) |
| Series |
Solving social problems |
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Solving social problems.
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| Contents |
PART I. The focal catalytic coalition model -- 1. Advocating for the poor through state and national coalitions -- 2. NCRC and the issues that emerge from defending the community reinvestment act -- 3. NLIHC and issues on affordable housing for lower income -- PART II. Mobilizing and informing members -- 4. Mobilization : building a foundation for coalition action -- 5. The power of information and information as power -- PART III. Advocacy and lobbying efforts to bring about policy changes -- 6. The tools of coalition advocacy : working with the mass media to frame issues -- 7. Techniques for influencing legislators and regulators -- 8. Lobbying in person -- 9. Legislative and regulatory agency hearings -- 10. Other forms of political pressure -- PART IV. Bringing it all together at the annual meeting -- 11. What annual conferences accomplish -- 12. Encounters with elected and regulatory officials at the national conference -- Conclusion : reflections on the theory and models for coalition advocacy and suggestions for progressive activism -- Appendix : methodological approach -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book portrays how small, geographically dispersed, progressive social change and social service organizations working within a coalition can influence national level social policies. Based on extensive empirical research on two national organizations and their local affiliates one focusing on affordable housing, the other working to protect lower income communities, this book shows the ways in which professionally staffed organizations that coordinate coalitions come about and then describes their work to mobilize coalition members to lobby and advocate, providing information, analysis and instruction to facilitate such action, and in so doing become the public voice for the social change efforts of coalitions. Advocacy for Social Change details the characteristics of these organizations that the author has labeled as focal catalytic coalition organizations and then provides numerous examples of campaigns led by them on affordable housing and economic justice, campaigns that illustrate tactics that other social change organizations can emulate. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in social problems, social action, political sociology, urban studies, community development and organizing while extending the literature on interest group lobbying"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social advocacy.
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Pressure groups.
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Low-income housing -- Government policy
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Poor -- Government policy
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Welfare rights movement.
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Welfare rights movement
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Low-income housing -- Government policy
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Poor -- Government policy
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Pressure groups
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Social advocacy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351348478 |
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1351348477 |
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