Neoliberalism and Public Policy
A political approach that favors free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.
What is neoliberalism?
These organizations have played a vital role in creating organizational responses to address human needs. What are these organizations called?
What are nonprofit organizations?
This is the term that refers to citizens’ entitlement to basic needs, such as healthcare, housing, and education.
What is social rights?
This term describes efforts by nonprofit organizations and civil society groups to influence public policy and protect social rights.
What is advocacy?
Under neoliberal policies what type of organizations are required to operate with a focus on efficiency and cost-cutting, often at the expense of broader social missions.
What are nonprofit organizations?
This percent of organizations claim to have engaged in political activity at least once.
What is 75%
The 1996 welfare reform law replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with this program.
What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families?
This strategy, used by social movements, involves mass mobilization, protests, and lobbying to influence government policy.
What is grassroots organizing?
Under what presidential administration did neoliberalism rise.
What is the Reagan Administration?
The percent of organizations who actually devote substantial resources to what the authors define as “core advocacy."
What is 7%
This U.S. president proposed a “Second Bill of Rights,” advocating for economic security and social welfare protections.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This social movement led to programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Supplemental Security Income being created.
What is the civil rights movement?
This form of policy-making promoted by neoliberalism frames social problems as requiring local, consumer-driven solutions, often reducing collective action for social rights.
What is privatization?
During the Progressive Era, this type of institution provided social services and advocacy, often to immigrants.
What is a settlement house?
This 1987 law addressed homelessness by providing federal aid for shelter and services.
What is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?
This social movement addressed an epidemic that first began during the 1980’s and involved many grassroots activists and advocacy organizations from health educators, journalists, writers, and service providers who participated in powerful political mobilization and fundraising.
What is the "AIDS Movement?"
This law in 1981 dramatically cut social welfare spending and shifted control of public assistance to the states.
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act?
Nonprofit human-service organizations pursued and affirmed what specifically during the Progressive Era.
What is social rights?
Finish the phrase. The article states “Under privatization, citizens become…”
What are customers?
A progressive movement network that helped push living-wage ordinances in 16 cities, advocated to raise the minimum wage in New York, joined coalitions in several cities to advance charter schools, participated in a coalition to prevent national legislation that would preempt state and local laws against predatory lending, and mobilized for voter registration.
What is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)?