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| Becoming Motivated to Become a Policy Advocate: Policy Practice and Policy Advocacy as the Fourth Dimension of Social Work Practice | |
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| Joining a Tradition of Social Reform | |
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| Diversity and Policy Advocacy | |
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| Advancing the Public Interest at Home and Abroad | |
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| Using an Ecological Perspective | |
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| What Policy Practitioners and Advocates Seek to Change | |
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| What Are Policy Practice and Policy Advocacy? | |
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| Challenges Encountered by Policy Advocates | |
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| Joining a Tradition of Policy Advocacy | |
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| Joining the Reform Tradition Within Social Work | |
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| Policy Devolution, Technology, and Policy Advocacy | |
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| Becoming an Effective Policy Advocate | |
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| The Rewards of Policy Advocacy | |
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| Changing the Composition of Decision Makers | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Articulating Four Rationales for Participating in Policy Advocacy | |
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| The Ethical Rationale for Policy Advocacy | |
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| Returning to Ideology | |
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| The Analytic Rationale for Policy Advocacy | |
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| Choosing Sides: Controversy and Research | |
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| The Political Rationale for Policy Advocacy | |
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| Interlocking Rationales for Policy Advocacy | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Surmounting Cynicism by Developing Policy-Advocacy Skills | |
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| Obtaining Skills and Competencies for Policy Advocacy | |
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| A Policy Practice Framework | |
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| Perspectives of Stakeholders and Policy Advocates | |
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| Applications of Policy Tasks and Skills | |
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| Analyzing Policy Practice | |
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| Describing Policy Practice: A Case Example | |
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| Ballot-Based Advocacy | |
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| The Variety of Policies | |
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| Overcoming Discomfort with Power | |
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| Social Policy's Role in Ecological Frameworks | |
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| Policy Practice as a Unifying Theme | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Understanding the Ecology of Policy in Governmental, Electoral, Community, and Agency Settings | |
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| The Players in Legislative and Governmental Settings | |
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| The Electoral Process | |
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| The MindSets of Elected Officials | |
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| The MindSets of Nonelected Officials | |
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| Strategy in Legislative Settings | |
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| The Political Economy of Social Agencies | |
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| The Political Economy of Programs and Social Work Units | |
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| Mapping Agencies' Policies | |
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| The Players in Organizational Settings | |
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| The Political Economy of Communities | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Committing to Problems and Solutions | |
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| Committing to an Issue: Building Agendas | |
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| Taking the First Step | |
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| Why Agenda Building Is Needed | |
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| Three Challenges in Agenda Building | |
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| Can Direct-Service Staff Help to Build Agendas? | |
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| Policy Advocacy for Powerless Populations and Unpopular Issues | |
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| Electoral Processes | |
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| Developing Links with Advocacy Groups | |
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| Using Multiple Skills in Agenda Building | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Commiting to a Solution: Analyzing Problems | |
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| Developing and Defending Policy Proposals | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Do Policy Advocates Have to Analyze Problems? | |
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| Using a Flowchart to Analyze Problems | |
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| Illustrating a Flowchart with Welfare Reform | |
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| The Causes of Social Problems | |
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| Developing Interventions and Programs | |
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| Measuring the Magnitude of Problems | |
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| Locating Problems Spatially | |
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| Assessing Policy Reforms | |
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| Social Problems as Slippery Concepts | |
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| Challenges for Policy Advocates | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Developing Policy Proposals | |
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| Intersecting Arenas and Stakeholders | |
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| Recurring Policy Issues and Policy Options | |
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| An Overview of the Proposal to Fund Shelters for Battered Women | |
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| The Anatomy of Policy Proposals | |
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| Trade-Offs: Systematically Comparing Policy Options | |
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| Linking Policy Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Presenting and Defending Policy Proposals | |
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| Ideology and Policy Positions | |
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| Electoral Politics and Proposals | |
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| Combative Persuasion | |
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| Adversarial or Friendly Communication: Which Is Preferable? | |
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| Persuading Specific Audiences | |
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| Strategies of Persuasion | |
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| Assembling a Strategy | |
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| Writing Succinct Policy Memos | |
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| Gaining Support for Grant Proposals | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Advocating for Change | |
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| Developing and Using Power | |
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| In Defense of Politics | |
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| Analytic and Political Approaches to Policy Advocacy | |
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| The Nature of Power | |
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| Person-to-Person Power | |
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| Substantive Power | |
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| Using Indirect Power | |
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| Successful Power Users | |
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| Power in Organizations | |
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| Exerting External Pressure | |
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| Power Differentials | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Developing and Using Power | |
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| Obtaining Power Resources | |
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| Out-Group Members' Problems | |
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| Developing Assertiveness | |
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| Can Direct-Service Staff Use Power Resources? | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Developing Political Strategy | |
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| Establishing Some Objectives | |
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| Grounding Strategy in Current Realities | |
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| Building Scenarios to Construct Political Strategy | |
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| Seven Recurring Steps in Strategy | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Putting Political Strategy into Action | |
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| Strategy in Legislative Settings | |
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| Organizing Legislative Advocacy Projects from Scratch | |
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| Strategy in Agency Settings | |
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| Developing Strategy in Community Settings | |
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| Forming Coalitions | |
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| Establishing Networks | |
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| Establishing Policy Goals in the Community Context | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Engaging in Ballot-Based Policy Advocacy | |
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| Why Ballot-Based Policy Advocacy Is Important | |
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| Policy Advocacy in the Electoral Process | |
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| Developing Population Profiles | |
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| Using Power Resources to Persuade Voters | |
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| Finding Resources | |
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| Creating a Campaign Organization | |
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| Developing Campaign Strategy | |
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| Conducting Issue-Oriented Campaigns | |
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| Making Issue Campaigns and Electoral Politics Intersect | |
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| Participating in Electoral and Issue-Oriented Campaigns | |
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| Deciding to Run for Office | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Troubleshooting and Assessing Policies | |
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| Troubleshooting Policies | |
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| A Framework for Implementing Policy | |
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| Reforming the Implementation Process | |
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| Do Policy Advocates Ever Sabotage Policies? | |
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| A Case Example of Implementation: The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 | |
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| Advocates' Options for Reforming the Implementation of PSDA | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Assessing Policies | |
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| Assessing Policies | |
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| The Fundamental Logic of Policy Assessment | |
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| Similarities Between Assessing and Analyzing Policy | |
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| Similarities Between Policy Assessment and Policy Debates | |
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| Tools for Countering Criticism | |
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| Barriers to the Use of Policy and Program Evaluation | |
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| Qualitative Evaluations | |
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| Policy Advocates' Use of Data | |
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| Why All Social Workers Should Assess Policies | |
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| Chapter Summary: What You Can Now Do | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |