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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in the United States

Authors : Sheldon Gen, Amy Conley Wright

Published in: Nonprofits in Policy Advocacy

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The policy advocacy efforts by the National Center for Lesbian Rights raise pertinent questions about the practice of policy advocacy. Those questions lead to a discussion of policy advocacy within the American political system, highlighting the following important concepts: the separation of power among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government; the division of governance between the federal and state levels through federalism; and trends toward devolution of policy making to the state and local levels. An overview of policy advocacy by nonprofit organizations within the United States is next presented, highlighting the scope of policy advocacy by describing the major causes championed by advocacy organizations, and the scale of nonprofit advocacy organizations.

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That decision would come in 2015, with the US Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges.
 
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Metadata
Title
Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in the United States
Authors
Sheldon Gen
Amy Conley Wright
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Nonprofits in Policy Advocacy

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-43695-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-43696-4

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43696-4_1