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    • Controlling the Levers of Power: How Advocacy Organizations Affect the Regulation Writing Process 

      Hoefer, Richard; Ferguson, Kristin (Social Work at ScholarWorks at Western Michigan UniversitySchool of Social Work, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2007-03)
      The Federal regulation-writing process is vital to understanding how laws are translated into policy. This paper re-examines data on human services interest groups active in lobbying the executive branch to determine what ...
    • Dating Violence Policy: Making the Grade 

      Hoefer, Richard; Black, Beverly M.; Salehin, Mashooq Azad (Social Work at ScholarWorks at Western Michigan UniversitySchool of Social Work, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012-12)
      Dating violence rates affect an unacceptably high percentage of youth. This paper tests a model to understand the considerable variation in state dating violence policy comprehensiveness. Independent variables in the model ...