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Author : Mary L. Walsh
Publisher : International City/County Management Association(ICMA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Building Citizen Involvement written by Mary L. Walsh and published by International City/County Management Association(ICMA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James L. Creighton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787979635
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)
Download or read book The Public Participation Handbook written by James L. Creighton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-03-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned facilitator and public participation consultant James L. Creighton offers a practical guide to designing and facilitating public participation of the public in environmental and public policy decision making. Written for government officials, public and community leaders, and professional facilitators, The Public Participation Handbook is a toolkit for designing a participation process, selecting techniques to encourage participation, facilitating successful public meetings, working with the media, and evaluating the program. The book is also filled with practical advice, checklists, worksheets, and illustrative examples.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464807744
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Making Politics Work for Development written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Author : Naila Kabeer
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842775493
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Inclusive Citizenship written by Naila Kabeer and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People's understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of the various meanings of personal and national identity, political and electoral participation, and rights. The contributors to this book seek to explore the difficult questions inherent in the notion of citizenship from various angles. They look at citizenship and rights, citizenship and identity, citizenship and political struggle, and the policy implications of substantive notions of citizenship. They illustrate the various ways in which people are excluded from full citizenship; the identities that matter to people and their compatibility with dominant notions of citizenship; the tensions between individual and collective rights in definitions of citizenship; struggles to realize and expand citizens' rights; and the challenges these questions entail for development policy. This is the first volume in a new series: Claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation and Accountability
Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191053325
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Participation Gap written by Russell J. Dalton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends. More people in the established democracies are participating in civil society activity, contacting government officials, protesting, and using online activism and other creative forms of participation. At the same time, the importance of social status as an influence on political activity is increasing. The democratic principle of the equality of voice is eroding. The politically rich are getting richer-and the politically needy have less voice. This book assembles an unprecedented set of international public opinion surveys to identify the individual, institutional, and political factors that produce these trends. New forms of activity place greater demands on participants, raising the importance of social status skills and resources. Civil society activity further widens the participation gap. New norms of citizenship shift how people participate. And generational change and new online forms of activism accentuate this process. Effective and representative government requires a participatory citizenry and equal voice, and participation trends are undermining these outcomes. The Participation Gap both documents the growing participation gap in contemporary democracies and suggests ways that we can better achieve their theoretical ideal of a participatory citizenry and equal voice.
Author : Peter Beresford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349225444
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Citizen Involvement written by Peter Beresford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first introduction and practical guide to increasing people's say and involvement in their lives, neighbourhood and services. It draws on a major study of initiatives to involve and empower people. It explores a wide range of schemes across a variety of policies and services, including housing, health care, education, community development, social work and social services. It also examines the underlying principles, politics and philosophy of participation. It offers guidelines for participatory policy and practice and a checklist for evaluating and auditing citizen involvement.
Author : Vera Schatten Coelho
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848139152
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Mobilizing for Democracy written by Vera Schatten Coelho and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that are core to the development of democratic politics. No other volume has brought together examples from such a broad Southern spectrum and covering such a diversity of actors: rural and urban dwellers, transnational activists, religious groups, politicians and social leaders. The cases illuminate the crucial contribution that citizen mobilization makes to democratization and the building of state institutions, and reflect the uneasy relationship between citizens and the institutions that are designed to foster their political participation.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264195564
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Citizens as Partners Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-Making written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a wide range of country experiences, offers examples of good practice, highlights innovative approaches and identifies promising tools (including new information technologies)for engaging citizens in policy making. It proposes a set of ten guiding principles.
Author : Anna A. Amirkhanyan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351379267
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting written by Anna A. Amirkhanyan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is based on a simple premise: in democracies, power originates with citizens. While citizen participation in government remains a central tenet of democracy, public service delivery structures are considerably more complex today than they were fifty years ago. Today, governments contract with private organizations to deliver a wide array of services. Yet, we know very little about how citizens influence government decisions and policies in the "hollow state." Based on nearly 100 interviews with public and private managers, our findings about the state of citizen participation in contract governance are somewhat disheartening. Public and private organizations engaged citizens in a number of ways. However, most of their efforts failed to shift the power structure in communities and did not give citizens a chance to fundamentally shape local priorities and programs. Instead, elected officials and professional staff largely maintained control over significant policy and administrative decisions. Widespread, but narrow in their forms and impact, the participation practices we uncovered did not live up to the ideals of democracy and self-governance. Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is suitable for those who study public administration, as well as in other closely related fields such as nonprofit management and organizational behavior.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264725903
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least one full day – and often much longer – to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues.
Author : Oleksandra Keudel
Publisher : Ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 9783838216713
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (167 download)
Download or read book How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime written by Oleksandra Keudel and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oleksandra Keudel proposes a novel explanation for why some local governments in hybrid regimes enable citizen participation while others restrict it. She argues that mechanisms for citizen participation are by-products of political dynamics of informal business-political (patronal) networks that seek domination over local governments. Against the backdrop of either competition or coordination between patronal networks in their localities, municipal leaders cherry-pick citizen participation mechanisms as a tactic to sustain their own access to resources and functions of local governments. This argument is based on an in-depth comparative analysis of patronal network arrangements and the adoption of citizen participation mechanisms in five urban municipalities in Ukraine during 2015-2019: Chernivtsi, Kharkiv, Kropyvnytskyi, Lviv, and Odesa. Fifty-seven interviews with citizen participation experts, local politicians and officials, representatives of civil society and the media, as well as utilization of secondary analytical sources, official government data, and media reports provide a rich basis for an investigation of context-specific choices of municipal leaders that result in varying mechanisms for citizen participation.
Author : Tony Woodlief
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641772115
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)
Download or read book I, Citizen written by Tony Woodlief and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of hope, but also of peril. It began when our nation’s polarized political class started conscripting everyday citizens into its culture war. From their commanding heights in political parties, media, academia, and government, these partisans have attacked one another for years, but increasingly they’ve convinced everyday Americans to join the fray. Why should we feel such animosity toward our fellow citizens, our neighbors, even our own kin? Because we’ve fallen for the false narrative, eagerly promoted by pundits on the Left and the Right, that citizens who happen to vote Democrat or Republican are enthusiastic supporters of Team Blue or Team Red. Aside from a minority of party activists and partisans, however, most voters are simply trying to choose the lesser of two evils. The real threat to our union isn’t Red vs. Blue America, it’s the quiet collusion within our nation’s political class to take away that most American of freedoms: our right to self-governance. Even as partisans work overtime to divide Americans against one another, they’ve erected a system under which we ordinary citizens don’t have a voice in the decisions that affect our lives. From foreign wars to how local libraries are run, authority no longer resides with We the People, but amongst unaccountable officials. The political class has stolen our birthright and set us at one another’s throats. This is the story of how that happened and what we can do about it. America stands at a precipice, but there’s still time to reclaim authority over our lives and communities.
Author : Paul Rogat Loeb
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312204353
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Soul of a Citizen written by Paul Rogat Loeb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions for Reading Groups
Author : Thomas Ehrlich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461636620
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Civic Responsibility and Higher Education written by Thomas Ehrlich and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century ago, John Dewey challenged the education community to look to civic involvement for the betterment of both community and campus. Today, the challenge remains. In his landmark book, editor Thomas Ehrlich has collected essays from national leaders who have focused on civic responsibility and higher education. Imparting both philosophy and working examples, Ehrlich provides the inspiration for innovative new programs in this essential area of learning.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Effective citizen participation in transportation planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Responses to Questionnaire on Citizen Involvement and Responsive Agency Decision-making ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Old Colony Planning Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Citizen Involvement in OCPC 208 Planning written by Old Colony Planning Council and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
