U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles
This reference book defines the work of major organizations in the United States concerned with public policies that affect 30 million elderly Americans today. In-depth analyses of the strategies, programs, and publications of eighty-three national non-profit and non-partisan groups give an overview of citizen work on behalf of the aging and the aged. A brief history of organizational development and a listing of pertinent national legislation provides important background information. Directories of other important organizations, a selected bibliography, a full index, and cross-references make this volume easy for students, professionals, and citizen activists to use.

Entries are arranged alphabetically—each entry contains sections on the origin and development of the group, its organization and funding, policy concerns and tactics, electoral activity, and publications and sources for further information. This volume joins a series of references that deal with the formation of public policy among different interest groups in the United States.

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U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles
This reference book defines the work of major organizations in the United States concerned with public policies that affect 30 million elderly Americans today. In-depth analyses of the strategies, programs, and publications of eighty-three national non-profit and non-partisan groups give an overview of citizen work on behalf of the aging and the aged. A brief history of organizational development and a listing of pertinent national legislation provides important background information. Directories of other important organizations, a selected bibliography, a full index, and cross-references make this volume easy for students, professionals, and citizen activists to use.

Entries are arranged alphabetically—each entry contains sections on the origin and development of the group, its organization and funding, policy concerns and tactics, electoral activity, and publications and sources for further information. This volume joins a series of references that deal with the formation of public policy among different interest groups in the United States.

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U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles

U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles

U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles

U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles

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This reference book defines the work of major organizations in the United States concerned with public policies that affect 30 million elderly Americans today. In-depth analyses of the strategies, programs, and publications of eighty-three national non-profit and non-partisan groups give an overview of citizen work on behalf of the aging and the aged. A brief history of organizational development and a listing of pertinent national legislation provides important background information. Directories of other important organizations, a selected bibliography, a full index, and cross-references make this volume easy for students, professionals, and citizen activists to use.

Entries are arranged alphabetically—each entry contains sections on the origin and development of the group, its organization and funding, policy concerns and tactics, electoral activity, and publications and sources for further information. This volume joins a series of references that deal with the formation of public policy among different interest groups in the United States.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313265433
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/30/1992
Series: Greenwood Reference Volumes on American Public Policy Formation
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile: 1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

DAVID D. VAN TASSEL is Elbert J. Benton Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Old Age in a Bureaucratic Society (Greenwood Press, 1986), among a number of other works.

JIMMY E.W. MEYER is a former librarian and a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Case Western Reserve University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups
Chronological List of Enacted Federal Legislation
U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups
Appendix A: Selected Additional Organizations
Appendix B: Organizational Members of Coalitions on Aging, 1991
Selected Bibliography
Index

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