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Harrison Institute State Policy
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Publications The Harrison Institute's Policy Clinic serves legislators, public officials and nonprofit organizations that actively pursue economic and social reform. We focus on the role of states in the federal system, which involves analysis of the interaction between city, state and federal governments. States are the arbiters of most federal resources, and states are celebrated as the "laboratories of democracy" that generate innovations for future federal or multistate policy. Some students work on Institute-managed projects, some work directly with government officials or nonprofit organizations across the nations, and some represent the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and its network of state legislators, administrators and advocates. CPA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan center that works to build a new economy that is inclusive, participatory and environmentally sustainable. Students spend most of their fall semester working within the Institute or CPA to develop a policy proposal. In the first months, the clinic stresses policy design and drafting rather than the process within a state agency or legislature. However, by the second semester, students become highly interactive with a national network of clients and strategic partners. Serving these clients requires students to integrate law,
policy and politics. The first student role is to help clients
develop a strategic plan to get results out of policy research
and drafting. The research and drafting culminate in a number
of products, which include policy briefs, model legislation,
sourcebooks, and media visibility through press conferences
and op-ed articles. Students have several opportunities for
public speaking before groups of public officials, national
advisory committees, coalition meetings and conferences. Revised June 27, 2003 (ML) |
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