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Petitioning one’s government for relief, redress or action is as American as apple pie. A government “of the people, by the people and for the people” is at work every day in the nation’s Capitol and in State Houses and Town Halls throughout the United States (Lincoln, 1863). Constituents of all sorts take their varied interests to these seats of power in the hope of securing attention and finding solutions to problems that are too big, too vexing or too complex for them to solve alone. State, county and municipal governments make policy on a broad array of issues from taxation and land use to education and public health. This multi-jurisdictional policymaking environment and the amount of policymaking that takes place locally, distinguishes the United States from many other countries.
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Nayowith, G.B. (2010). Fact-Based Child Advocacy: The Convergence of Analysis, Practice, and Politics in New York City. In: Kamerman, S.B., Phipps, S., Ben-Arieh, A. (eds) From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3377-2_6
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