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Confronting Power: The Practice of Policy Advocacy

Confronting Power provides an academically rigorous, yet practical and comprehensive framework and concepts for planning, implementing and evaluating policy advocacy. Based on the author's experiences both as teacher and activist, the framework is general enough to be relevant for advocacy in a variety of sectors such as poverty alleviation, human rights and the environment, in different national and cultural contexts, and at levels ranging from influencing a town council to transnational institutions such as the World Bank. The book grounds the concepts via a series of case studies, which themselves illustrate a range of different advocacy campaigns in both the Global South and the United States. Designed to be both a textbook and a guide for practical action, Confronting Power should become an essential component of every teacher and social advocate’s tool kit.

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Confronting Power: The Practice of Policy Advocacy

Confronting Power provides an academically rigorous, yet practical and comprehensive framework and concepts for planning, implementing and evaluating policy advocacy. Based on the author's experiences both as teacher and activist, the framework is general enough to be relevant for advocacy in a variety of sectors such as poverty alleviation, human rights and the environment, in different national and cultural contexts, and at levels ranging from influencing a town council to transnational institutions such as the World Bank. The book grounds the concepts via a series of case studies, which themselves illustrate a range of different advocacy campaigns in both the Global South and the United States. Designed to be both a textbook and a guide for practical action, Confronting Power should become an essential component of every teacher and social advocate’s tool kit.

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Confronting Power: The Practice of Policy Advocacy

Confronting Power: The Practice of Policy Advocacy

by Jeff Unsicker
Confronting Power: The Practice of Policy Advocacy
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Confronting Power: The Practice of Policy Advocacy

Confronting Power: The Practice of Policy Advocacy

by Jeff Unsicker

Overview

Confronting Power provides an academically rigorous, yet practical and comprehensive framework and concepts for planning, implementing and evaluating policy advocacy. Based on the author's experiences both as teacher and activist, the framework is general enough to be relevant for advocacy in a variety of sectors such as poverty alleviation, human rights and the environment, in different national and cultural contexts, and at levels ranging from influencing a town council to transnational institutions such as the World Bank. The book grounds the concepts via a series of case studies, which themselves illustrate a range of different advocacy campaigns in both the Global South and the United States. Designed to be both a textbook and a guide for practical action, Confronting Power should become an essential component of every teacher and social advocate’s tool kit.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781565495333
Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 11/28/2012
Pages: 286
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jeff Unsicker is Professor and Chair of the Sustainable Development program at the SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

PART ONE

1. Introduction

2. Conceptual Maps

Case A: A Small Town in Peru Battles a Multinational Mining Corporation—Rosa Maria Olortegui, coauthor

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?—Sheepa Hafiza, coauthor

5. Advocates: Building Capacity

Case D: Research and Advocacy for a Ghana AIDS Commission—Nikoi Kote-Nikoi, coauthor

6. Policy: Problems, Causes and Solutions

Case E: Oxfam America Climate Change Campaign: Political Mapping—Gabrielle Watson, coauthor

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—Kim Friedman, coauthor

9. Advocacy Communications: (Re)Framing and Story Telling

Case H: Oxfam America Climate Change Campaign: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning—Gabrielle Watson, coauthor

10. Advocacy Evaluation and Learning

About the Authors and Coauthors

Index

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