John R. Butler

Through an exclusive focus on public policy advocacy as a practical endeavor, Philip Dalton and John R. Butler depart from approaches to debate education that focus on the rules of simulated, academic

Public Policy Argumentation and Debate: A Practical Guide for Advocacy is intended as a guide to facilitating and aligning the reader's argumentative agency and as a primer for translating the systems of academic debate for use in the practice of public policy advocacy. Four general themes include standard argumentation and an understanding of debate in relation to public policy advocacy, message development, developing a public policy advocacy framework based on commonalities, and the contextual nature of public policy advocacy. Each chapter provides a list of takeaways and an exercise designed to guide the reader's personal engagement with public policy advocacy. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)