Herbert J. Rubin

Advocacy for Social Change (eBook, ePUB)

Coalitions and the Organizations That Lead Them

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Produktbeschreibung

This book portrays how small, geographically dispersed, progressive social change and social service organizations working within a coalition are able to influence national level social policies. Based on extensive empirical research focused on two national organizations that exist to protect lower income communities, and three more local organizations associated with them, it shows how such organizations achieve success by establishing professionally staffed national level organizations that coordinate coalition efforts, mobilize members into action, provide information and instruction to facilitate such action, and act as the public voice for the coalitions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351348478
• Artikelnr.: 54060111

Autorenporträt

Herbert J. Rubin is a retired professor of sociology from Northern Illinois University. His interests are in urban studies, community organizing and research methods, with a focus on organizations working to help low-income individuals and improve the quality of life in neighborhoods of deprivation. He is author of Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair: The Community-Based Development Model and co-author of Community Organizing and Development.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Abbreviations, acronyms or shorthand expressions 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 individuals 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