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Behavioral Health Politics in Texas: Lessons from Austin and the 86th Legislature
(2020-05) Gajewski, Alexander James; Sage, William
How can behavioral health stakeholders engage effectively with Texas' government? To answer this question, my thesis examines three theories of effective advocacy: 1. Effective advocacy attempts to sway public attitudes. 2. Effecive advocacy attempts to change who holds office. 3. Effective advocacy introduces policymakers to new ideas. As the thesis brings nuance to each argument, it also provides readers with a basic understanding of the Texas Legislature, Texas politics, and key actors in state government. Analysis is integrated with narrative vignettes and distilled into seven chapters, each covering one topic in behavioral health policy. These topics include behavioral health lobbying, mental health insurance policy, the Early Childhood Intervention program, the mental health in schools movement, substance use prevention, and the politics of homelessness and comorbid mental illness. Each chapter introduces readers to subfields in public mental health and the political processes relevant to them. Personal experience, secondary research, and a small set of interviews with policy professionals inform the thesis. Ultimately, I hope to empower stakeholders to press the levers of public power and improve Texas' behavioral health care system.
The later phases of the secession movement in Texas
(1920) Arnold, Marcus Llewellyn, 1870-; Not available
Legislative Update – 83rd Texas Legislature
(Texas Education Review, 2013) Aycock, Jimmie Dean
The Opening Door: A Report on Texas State Hospitals
(Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, 1958) Hogg Foundation for Mental Health; Kruger Smith, Bert; Lynn, Bruce
Population-bracket bills in Texas : a study in local and special legislation
(1948) Benton, Wilbourn E.; Not available
Voting in the Texas Legislature compared to the U.S. Congress
(2012-04-02) Hung, Daniel
What variables affect the way Texas State Representatives vote? Studies have shown that campaign contributions to members of the U.S. Congress do not necessarily affect the way they vote. This study examines whether this is also true for the Texas Legislature. I will look at the payday lender bill (HB2594, which will regulate the industry), where the payday lender industry has contributed more than $1 million dollars to Texas politicians and see if it affected the way Texas State Representatives voted. Then I will consider other variables such as the location of pay day lenders, and the ideology rating of State Representatives. These payday bills take place in the 82nd Texas Legislature, where the state representative is composed of 101 Republicans, and 49 Democrats.