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Topic: SOCW 6361 Week 4 Discussion Type of paper: Discussion/Response Discipline: Social Sciences : Social Work (MSW) Format or citation style: APA (edition "APA 7") Managing public op... inion and understanding the balance between its influence and your advocacy goals is a delicate matter. It is a task fraught with uncertainty because, as a policy advocate, you must navigate through the territory of politicians, bureaucrats, and lobbyists whose primary goals are to appease and please their constituents. In this Discussion, you select a social problem that is of interest to you and identify how public opinion influences the process and political approaches involved in addressing that social problem. *Post a description of the importance of public opinion in addressing the social problem you have selected. *How does public opinion influence political approaches to the problem? *Explain. What policy advocacy approaches and skills can you use to address the problem with political leaders? *What are the social justice implications of your approach? Be sure to support your post with specific references to this week's resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references. Use subheadings and I will upload the colleagues posts for you to respond to as I receive them. Book reference for the week: Jansson, B. S. (2018). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice. (8th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning Series. Chapter 4, "Understanding the Ecology of Policy in Government, Electoral, Community, and Agency Settings" (pp. 100–140) [Show More]

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