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Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence - Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor (Paperback)
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Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence - Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor (Paperback)
Series: American Governance and Public Policy series
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Public silence in policymaking can 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 so many
advocates remain silent on key issues they care about and how does
that silence contribute 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 through 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
look at the Connecticut Medicaid advisory board's deliberations
during the managed care debate. Drawing on the concepts of
deliberative democracy, agenda setting, and nonprofit advocacy,
Grogan and Gusmano reveal the reasons behind advocates' often
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 will be well-served by this significant study.
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