Influencing Policy Development:
Other resources and links related to Influencing Policy Development
Please note: Sites in the WorkStation to advocate for change may also be useful. These web sites provide information, research, how-to guides, and examples that might help in your work.
- http://www.kac.org/advtoolkit.html
Kansas Action for Children provides an Advocacy Toolkit to support people attempting to change or create policy that supports children. Contents include how a bill becomes law, where to get legislative information, questions to ask candidates, etc.
- http://www.publicagenda.org/
Public Agenda Online is a public opinion research and citizen education organization. Information on over 20 issues is available, including pending proposals.
- http://www.ids.ac.uk/gdn/tools/influence.htm
The Global Development Network provides information on how to influence policy with research. Excellent tips illustrated by examples around the world.
- http://www.serviceleader.org/new/documents/articles/2004/06/000229.php
Service Leader site from University of Texas offers ideas on Volunteers Helping to Influence Public Policy.
- http://depts.washington.edu/ampol/research/major_research_programs/agenda_setting_and_american_politics/
Center for American Politics and Public Policy bibliography of works on agenda setting is classified by type (classics, case studies, media studies, etc.).
- http://www.citizenworks.org/
Citizen Works, a social justice site, has links and tools for organizing and lobbying, including information on campaign finance.
- http://www.muridae.com/nporegulation/lobbying.html
Online Compendium of Federal and State Regulations for U.S. Nonprofit Organizations explains Lobbying and Political Activity by Tax-Exempt Organizations
- http://www.loka.org/crn/index.htm
The Community Research Network strives to create a system through which grassroots workers, public-interest organizations and local governments can find solutions to problems and participate more effectively in public policy by establishing the agenda and controlling the results of research.
- http://www.pano.org/
Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations provides public policy and U.S. government links as well as state links.
- http://www.heapol.oupjournals.org
Online Health Policy and Planning Journal allows search of archives, with articles available in abstract of full text.
These sites provide information related to policies and governing bodies in the U.S.
- http://www.vote-smart.org/index.phtml
Project Vote Smart provides political information, including reports on how your state's legislators have voted.
- http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/links/legislat.htm
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. Links to sites having to do with state legislatures, including all official state internet web pages.
- http://thomas.loc.gov
This indispensable U.S. Library of Congress website for advocates (named for Thomas Jefferson) has the actual texts of all federal bills, budgets, pending and passed legislation (from 1993 on), and more.
- http://www.vote-smart.org
Voting records of U.S. Congress and state legislators, among other political information.
- http://webcom.com/~leavitt/cong.html
Clickable U.S. House and Senate e-mail and other information and discussion.
- http://webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
U.S. Congressional e-mail addresses.
- http://csd.cq.com
U.S. Congressional staff directory.
- http://capwiz.com/nyt/home/
The New York Times Guide to Congress (these are the same site) has contact and committee information for all members of U.S. Congress, as well as sections on what happens to a bill on its way to becoming law.
- http://thomas.loc.gov/home/legbranch/legbranch.html
The Library of Congress legislative branch resource page has everything you'll ever need to know and more: e-mail addresses, committees, ins and outs of Congressional operations, and links to a myriad of other important sites.
- http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html
University of Michigan Library includes links to information for the federal and all 50 state governments--laws, courts, executive branches, and everything else.
- http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
A resource for all 50 state legislatures, with info for each legislator, legislative committee, texts of bills and budgets, etc.
- http://www.ombwatch.org/
OMB Watch reports on the activities of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, which oversees regulation, the budget, information collection and dissemination, proposed legislation, testimony by agencies, and more.
The following electronic discussion lists related to health policy may help you talk with people who are doing similar work. They are available through CataList, a catalog of e-mail lists.
- BPHC-WOMENS-HEALTH@LIST.NIH.GOV
Women's Health Policy hosted by National Institutes of Health in U.S.
- BPHC_MINORITY_HEALTH@LIST.NIH.GOV
Health Policy Information list hosted by National Institutes of Health in U.S.
- IA_ANNOUNCE@IHHCPAR24.RUTGERS.EDU
Announcements from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research.
- HEAPOL-L@WEBBER.OUP.CO.UK
Oxford Journals Health Policy and Planning is a distribution only mailing list to inform subscribers when a new table of contents is released online for Health Policy and Planning journal, which blends such specialties as epidemiology, health and development economics, management and social policy, planning and social anthropology.
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