Influence and Advocacy

Advocacy--the power to influence.

August 2005 • Volume 9, Number 4 • CliNiCAl JourNAl of oNCology NursiNg Do you have questions on how to improve your leadership skills? Do you have a management or administrative problem that stumps you? Have you developed unique insights that helped you improve your leadership skills? If so, consider writing for this column dedicated to improvement of leadership skills at all levels. For more ...

Studying Organizational Advocacy and Influence: Reexamining Interest Group Research

In Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science (1998), Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech characterized a series of problems in the interest group research published between 1950 and 1995. In this article, we assess whether recent research has becomemore theoretically coherent, more attentive to context, and broader in both scope and topical focus, all of which ...

Advocacy.

The Psychology of Advocacy and the Advocacy of Psychology

This article addresses needs and opportunities for advocacy for the science, education and practice of psychology from the perspectives of three leaders within organized psychology, academia, and hospital practice. The authors make distinctions between knowledge transfer and knowledge translation as well as between lobbying and advocacy. They define proactive and reactive advocacy and draw atte...

Empowerment and Self Advocacy