Advocacy
This type of advocacy is specific to budget allocations and funding.
What is budget 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?
Yanny vs. _____
What is laurel?
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?
The cultural characterizations or popular images of the persons or group i.e. stereotypes
What are social constructions?
Organized efforts that seek to establish new policies, improve existing polices, or challenge the development of policies.
What is policy advocacy?
Working with people to act on a specific issue, i.e. getting people to show up and actively participate.
What is mobilizing?
The 1st step of the policy process is identifying a problem and defining it. Policymakers are tasked with differentiating ____ ____ from social problems.
What is social condition?
The final step in the policymaking process in which people begin to judge the effectiveness and efficiency.
What is evaluation?
Federal spending based on existing laws rather than the budgeting process, examples include Social Security and Medicare.
What is mandatory spending?
Advocacy efforts aimed at influencing decision makers and popular opinion through platforms such as writing letters to the editor, op-eds, twitter, press conferences, podcasts, etc.
What is media advocacy?
Bringing people together around issues, i.e. building power around an issue.
What is organizing?
When encountering someone who disagrees with you, try to balance advocacy and ______.
What is inquiry?
An opportune time for advocates to push their solution or push attention to their problem.
What is a policy window?
In "The House I Live In" they compare the war on drugs to a _______ in slow motion.
What is holocaust?
When you advocate on behalf of yourself for example at the doctors office or at work.
What is self-advocacy?
An attempt to leverage, seize or demonstrate power that disrupts the status quo.
What is a direct action?
Key moments that bring attention to problems such as disasters, crises, and symbols.
What is focusing event?
The fifth step of the policymaking process and refers to putting a new law in action.
What is implementation?
Ingram and Schneider's theory on perception and public policy
What is social constructions of target populations?
All _____ is advocacy but not all advocacy is ____.
What is lobbying?
Collective action from the local level to effect change at the local or national level. Its main purpose is to encourage community members to contribute to their community by taking action and being responsible for their neighborhood. Examples of this include petitioning, phone banking, letters to lawmakers etc.
What is grassroots mobilization?
The strongest measure of if a social condition becomes a social problem are changes in _____ ______. (They are factors that are quantified and used to assess the magnitude of a problem and changes in the problem.)
What is systematic indicators?
The third step in the policymaking process which refers to the development of effective and acceptable solutions to the problem placed on the national agenda.
What is formulation?
Individuals who through their creativity, strategy, networking, and persuasive argumentation are able to bring new policy ideas into the open and promote policy change. Their personal investment has hopes of future returns which could be a bill passing or a job promotion.
What is policy entrepreneur?