Persuading Local Government: How to Organize and Implement Effective Advocacy Campaigns - Paperback

by Herbert J. Rubin (Author)

Based on interviews with mayors, together with documentary evidence, analyses of public meetings, and the author's own experience of advocacy, this book provides a guide to becoming an empowered citizen, giving advice on how to achieve success when advocating with local government.

Author Biography

Herbert J. Rubin is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of Advocacy for Social Change: Coalitions and the Organizations That Lead Them and Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair: The Community-Based Development Model, and the co-author of Community Organizing and Development. He has served on and chaired numerous city committees and frequently advocates with city hall.