Jansson’s BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE POLICY ADVOCATE teaches you the ins and outs of conducting policy-practice in order to prepare you to implement policy reform during your own career. The seventh edition’s coverage includes discussion of such events and issues as Barack Obama’s presidency, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Arab Spring, and more. By going beyond the traditional foundational approach to policy, this groundbreaking text helps you develop the skills you need to become an advocate for social change.
pt. 1 . Becoming motivated to become a policy advocate and a leader. Joining a tradition of social reform
Articulating four rationales for participating in policy advocacy
pt. 2. Surmounting cynicism by developing policy-advocacy skills. Obtaining skills and competencies for policy advocacy
pt. 3. The ecology of policy in the United States and in a global world. Understanding the ecology of policy in governmental, electoral, community, and agency settings
Expanding policy advocacy across national borders
pt. 4. Committing to problems and solutions by building policy agendas and engaging in policy analysis. Committing to an issue: building agendas
Analyzing problems in the first step of policy analysis
Developing policy proposals in the second, third and fourth steps of policy analysis
Presenting and defending policy proposals in step 5 and step 6 of policy analysis
pt. 5. Advocating for change. Developing and using power in the policy-enacting task
Developing political strategy and putting it into action in the policy-enacting task
Engaging in ballot-based policy advocacy
pt. 6. Troubleshooting and assessing policies. Troubleshooting the implementation of policies in tasks
Assessing policy: toward evedince-based policy during task
