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Author Post, Margaret A

Title Grassroots Coalitions and State Policy Change : Organizing for Immigrant Health Care
Published El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages)
Series The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society
New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Contents List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Organizational Pathways to Political Incorporation: The Role of Coalitions; 3. Immigrant Political Power: Claims-making Coalitions and Policy Outcomes; 4. Research Design for Theory and Practice; 5. Massachusetts and California: 2004-2007; 6. Organizational Analysis: Process and Outcomes; 7, Immigrant Organizations and Policy Change: The Future Role of Coalitions; Appendix 1: Sample Interview Protocols; Appendix 2: Coalition Member Lists; Appendix 3: Profiles of Featured Organizations
Appendix 4: Sample Coalition AgreementsReferences; Index
Summary Post examines how coalitions build power in the policymaking arena. She focuses on interorganizational partnerships, internal capacity building, and claims-making, and shows that multi-organizational alliances can be intermediary mechanisms for promoting interests and realizing political gains. With case studies from Massachusetts and California between 2004 and 2007, Post investigates how statewide, health policy coalitions incorporate immigrant interests in organizing strategies for policy change. The analysis supports a theoretical framework of how mediating institutions can facilitate the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Immigrants -- Medical care -- Massachusetts
Immigrants -- Medical care -- California
Health services accessibility -- Massachusetts
Health services accessibility -- California
Pressure groups -- Massachusetts
Pressure groups -- California
Immigrants.
Medical policy.
Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration
Emigrants and Immigrants
Health Care Coalitions
Health Policy
Health Services Accessibility -- organization & administration
Public Opinion
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
Medical policy
Immigrants
Health services accessibility
Immigrants -- Medical care
Pressure groups
SUBJECT California https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002140
Massachusetts
Subject California
Massachusetts
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010039289
ISBN 9781593326654
1593326653