What is it about?
This study empirically identifies and describes 6 distinct strategies of nonprofit organizations to influence public policy. It also links these strategies to well-established theories of policy change.
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Why is it important?
So far, the practice of policy advocacy is often driven by anecdotal and experiential advice of practitioners, and the academic literature on policy change neglects how advocates view the processes of policy making. This article begins to pull these two bodies of knowledge together.
Perspectives
The strategies revealed in the data are strikingly coherent, and in some cases spanning academic theories that don't often find themselves in the same company (e.g., media work combined with adversarial legalism). I really appreciated the thoughtfulness that advocates put into the strategies they described.
Dr. Sheldon Gen
San Francisco State University
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This page is a summary of: Strategies of Policy Advocacy Organizations and Their Theoretical Affinities: Evidence from Q-Methodology, Policy Studies Journal, June 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/psj.12167.
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