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13 J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 248 (1986)
Factors Contributing to Coalition Maintenance

handle is hein.journals/jrlsasw13 and id is 260 raw text is: FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO COALITION MAINTENANCE Maria Roberts-DeGennaro, Ph.D. School of Social Work San Diego State University ABSTRACT Organizations are building advocacy coalitions as a way of strengthening their survival skills. This article reports on a case study of the factors associated with maintaining an advocacy coalition. The survival of a coalition appears to depend on whether it can insure its member organizations of the payoffs from committing their resources for advocacy purposes. Human service organizations are operating in a cost-cutting environment. The need to strengthen organizational survival skills is becoming apparent as more cut-back legislation, such as -Gramm Rudman, is passed. Consequently, organizations are sharing perceptions, actively organizing, and building cohesive structures. They are building coalitions in order to strengthen their survival skills. Coalitions provide a mechanism through which very separate and diverse organizations can cooperate and work together around a common goal. Yet, each organization can maintain its own identity and autonomy. Several definitions of coalitions have been suggested in the literature (see Gamson, 1961; Kelley, 1968; Groennings, Kelley and Leiserson, 1970; and Boissevain, 1974). Kelley's (1968, pp. 62-63) definition is probably the most useful in understanding the behavior of a coalition. He defines a coalition as a group of organizational actors who: 1) agree to pursue a common and 248

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