Sale!

Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor (American Government and Public Policy)

Amazon.com Price:  $22.95 (as of 02/05/2019 11:14 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

Public silence in policymaking may also be deafening. When advocates for a disadvantaged group decline to speak up, not only are their concerns not recorded or acted upon, but also the collective strength of the unspoken argument is lessened―a situation that undermines the workings of deliberative democracy by reflecting only the concerns of more powerful interests.

But why do such a lot of advocates remain silent on key issues they care about and how does that silence give a contribution to narrowly defined policies? What can individuals and organizations do to amplify their privately expressed concerns for policy change?

In Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence, Colleen M. Grogan and Michael K. Gusmano address these questions during the lens of state-level health care advocacy for the poor. They examine how representatives for the poor participate in an advisory board process by tying together existing studies; extensive interviews with key players; and an in-depth, first-hand have a look at the Connecticut Medicaid advisory board’s deliberations all through the managed care debate. Drawing at the concepts of deliberative democracy, agenda setting, and nonprofit advocacy, Grogan and Gusmano reveal the reasons at the back of advocates’ steadily unexpected silence on major issues, assess how capable nonprofits are at affecting policy debates, and provide prescriptive advice for creating a participatory process that adequately addresses the health care concerns of the poor and dispossessed.

Though exploring specifically state-level health care advocacy for the poor, the lessons Grogan and Gusmano offer here are transferable across issue areas and levels of government. Public policy scholars, advocacy organizations, government workers, and students of government administration shall be well-served by this significant study.

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » State and Local » Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor (American Government and Public Policy)

Recent Products