Framing Battles: Winning the Conceptual Contest That Shapes Policy Outcomes
How the struggle to define what policy debates are really about determines which solutions become politically possible
Institutional Insider Strategies: Advocacy Within the Corridors of Power
How advocates within institutions leverage position, navigate loyalty tensions, and coordinate with external pressure for maximum strategic effect
The Expertise Trap: When Technical Knowledge Undermines Advocacy Effectiveness
Why the deepest experts often become the least effective advocates—and how to escape this pattern
Defensive Advocacy: Protecting Hard-Won Gains Against Rollback Campaigns
Why protecting policy victories requires different strategies than winning them, and how implementation becomes your strongest defense.
Scale Without Dilution: Growing Advocacy Campaigns While Maintaining Strategic Focus
Why expanding your coalition might be weakening your campaign—and what to do about it
Narrative Infrastructure: Building Stories That Sustain Long-Term Advocacy Campaigns
Strategic advocacy requires narrative architecture that sustains campaigns across years, adapts to change, and maintains coalition coherence.
Targeting Theory: Selecting Advocacy Targets That Can Actually Deliver Change
Beyond intuition: systematic frameworks for identifying which targets can actually deliver the institutional changes your advocacy seeks
The Credibility Paradox: Why Radical Demands Sometimes Advance Moderate Goals
How strategic positioning shapes political possibility beyond mere negotiation—and when unrealistic demands serve purposes realistic ones cannot.
Institutional Memory and Advocacy: Learning From Campaigns That Came Before
Historical campaign analysis provides strategic leverage by revealing which approaches succeeded, failed, or remain untested under contemporary conditions.
The Advocacy Learning Curve: Why Campaigns That Adapt Outperform Those That Persist
How systematic feedback loops, rigorous analysis, and adaptive culture separate transformative advocacy campaigns from persistent failures.
Coalition Calculus: Building Advocacy Alliances That Survive Internal Tensions
Master the belief hierarchies and coordination mechanisms that determine whether advocacy alliances become transformative forces or spectacular failures.
Policy Windows and Prepared Minds: Seizing Rare Moments for Advocacy Breakthroughs
Master the analytical skills and organizational infrastructure needed to recognize and exploit brief policy windows when problem, political, and solution streams align for transformative change.
The Boomerang Effect: How Blocked Domestic Advocacy Escapes Through International Channels
When domestic advocacy hits institutional walls, strategic internationalization creates pressure that circles back to transform blocked systems.
Beyond Awareness: Converting Public Attention Into Institutional Pressure
Strategic frameworks for translating public attention into the institutional pressure that actually moves policy and compels systemic change.