Advocacy
An organized attempt to change policy, practice(s), and/or attitudes by presenting evidence and arguments for how and why change should happen
What is advocacy?
Executive, legislative, & judicial
What is the 3 branches of government?
Any governing principle, plan, course of action that guides and governs the choices and activities of a wide variety of institutions
What is public policy?
A viral audio clip of one word that split listeners into two groups
What is yanny vs. laurel?
Efforts aimed at influencing decision makers and popular opinion through media
What is media advocacy?
Active, covert, or inadvertent support of a particular policy or class of policies
What is policy advocacy?
A group of two or more organizations that are working together jointly on a specific issue or cause
What is coalition?
There are 2 of these representing every state
What are senators?
Offering a concrete action others can take
What is a specific ask?
Often this activity where journalists are invited to ask questions is paired with a direct action
What is press conference?
Moving people on an issue
What is mobilizing?
A voting member of a community
What is a constituent?
It represents less than one-third of the total federal budget and includes defense funding
What is discretionary spending?
A social network that limits you to 250 characters
What is Twitter?
A criminal justice phenomenon described as a holocaust in slow motion
What is mass incarceration?
Building power on an issue
What is organizing?
The stage of the policy process that refers to how the government decide to respond to an issue on the national agenda
What is formulation?
Federal spending based on existing laws rather than the budgeting process
What is mandatory spending?
To change a conversation topic or direction
What is pivot or redirecting?
Ingram and Schneider's theory on perception and public policy
What is Social Constructions of Target Populations?
An attempt to leverage, seize or demonstrate power
What is a direct action?
The 4th stage of the policy process
What is implementation?
Administrative policymakers representing large institutions, government department ad agencies
What is the bureaucracy?
Personal narrative + data and/or research + a specific ask
What is the advocacy equation?
All _____ is advocacy but not all advocacy is ____
What is lobbying?