Grassroots coalitions and state policy change : organizing for immigrant health care

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Label

Grassroots coalitions and state policy change : organizing for immigrant health care

Title remainder

organizing for immigrant health care

Statement of responsibility

Margaret A. Post

Creator

• Post, Margaret A

Subject

• Health services accessibility -- Massachusetts
• Immigrants -- Medical care -- California
• Immigrants -- Medical care -- Massachusetts
• Pressure groups -- California
• Pressure groups -- Massachusetts
• Health services accessibility -- California

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central
• The new Americans : recent immigration and American society

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

362.1086/912

Index

index present

LC call number

RA448.5.I44

LC item number

P67 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography