Primary text
Green, Duncan. How Change Happens. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Selected articles
Canada Revenue Agency. Policy Statement CPS-022 (Political Activities). 23 April 2014.
Edwards, Michael. “Thinking ahead: Four Questions for NGOs to Ponder.” Unpublished paper commissioned by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, May 2013.
Gladwell, Malcolm. “Small change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted.” The New Yorker (4 October 2010).
Heidebrecht, Paul C., and Jennifer Wiebe. “Advocacy and peacebuilding: making distinctions and connections.” Intersections: MCC Theory and Practice Quarterly 1/1 (Winter 2013): 9-12.
Heidebrecht, Paul C., and Jennifer Wiebe. “Keeping the Faith? Tracing the Struggle to Amplify the Peace Witness of Canadian Churches.” The Ecumenist: A Journal of Theology, Culture, and Society 52/1 (Winter 2015): 1-10.
House of Commons Canada. Guide for Witnesses Appearing Before House of Commons Committees (May 2013).
Lakey, George. “Should we bother trying to change our opponents’ hearts?” Waging Nonviolence Blog (4 June 2013).
Lindblom, Charles E. “Still Muddling, Not Yet Through.” Public Administration Review 39/6 (November-December 1979): 517-526.
Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada. The Lobbyists’ Code of Conduct (1 March 1997).
Raynor, Jared. “What Makes an Effective Coalition? Evidence-Based Indicators of Success.” TCC Group (March 2011).
Riddell, Darcy, and Michele-Lee Moore. “Scaling Out, Scaling Up, Scaling Deep: Advancing Systemic Social Innovation and the Learning Processes to Support It.” Report commissioned by the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and Tamarack Institute, October 2015.
Teles, Steven, and Mark Schmitt. “The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy.” Stanford Social Innovation Review (Summer 2011): 39-43.
Book review possibilities
Abelson, Donald E. Do Think Tanks Matter? Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes, 2nd ed. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.
Alemanno, Alberto. Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society. Icon Books, 2017.
Baumgartner, Frank R., Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, David C. Kimball, and Beth L. Leech. Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Becker, Jo. Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in Practice. Stanford University Press, 2013.
Blaikie, Bill. The Blaikie Report: An Insider’s Look at Faith and Politics. The United Church Publishing House, 2011.
Boulton, Jean, Peter Allen, and Cliff Bowman. Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Brockington, Dan. Celebrity Advocacy and International Development. Routledge, 2014.
Carden, Fred. Knowledge to Policy: Making the Most of Development Research. IDRC, 2009.
De Wall, Alex, ed. Advocacy in Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism. Zed Books, 2015.
Delacourt, Susan. Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them. Douglas and McIntyre, 2013.
Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Pantheon Books, 2012.
Ham, Hahrie. How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Kahane, Adam. Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2017.
Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Knopf Canada, 2014.
Lenihan, Don. Rescuing Policy: The Case for Public Engagement. Public Policy Forum, 2012.
Loat, Alison, and Michael MacMillan. Tragedy in the Commons: Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada's Failing Democracy. Random House Canada, 2014.
McKay, Ian, and Jamie Swift. Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety. Between the Lines, 2012.
Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. PublicAffairs, 2013.
Richler, Noah. What We Talk About When We Talk About War. Goose Lane Editions, 2012.
Roche, Douglas. Peacemakers: How People Around the World are Building a World Free of War. Toronto: James Lorimer & Co, 2014.
Savoie, Donald. Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.
Sussman, Amanda. The Art of the Possible: A Handbook for Political Activism. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2007.
Tetlock, Philip E. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? Princeton University Press, 2006.
Tufecki, Zeynep. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.