The state of citizen participation in America

This book provides a state-of-the-art assessment of citizen participation practice and research in the United States. With contributions from a stellar group of scholars, it provides readers an overview of a field at the heart of democratic governance. Individual chapters trace shifts in participati...

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Other Authors Schachter, Hindy Lauer (Editor), Yang, Kaifeng (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
SeriesA volume in international civic engagement
Subjects
Political participation > United States.
Public administration > United States > Citizen participation > Case studies.
Political planning > United States > Citizen participation > Case studies.
Political Science > Civics & Citizenship.
Civics and citizenship.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615124
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-836-4
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 477 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Civic participation in america
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: American civic participation in the 21st century / Hindy Lauer Schachter
  • Chapter 2. Looking back on the founding: Civic engagement traditions in the United States / Masami Nishishiba, Margaret Banyan, and Douglas F. Morgan
  • Part II. Citizen participation and policy
  • Chapter 3. Encouraging citizenship in U.S. Presidential administrations: An analysis of presidential records / Thomas A. Bryer
  • Chapter 4. The usability of government information: The necessary link between transparency and participation / Suzanne Piotrowski and Yuguo Liao
  • Part III. Citizen participation: Trends and assessments
  • Chapter 5. Citizen participation at the local level / Elaine B. Sharp
  • Chapter 6. Citizen engagement in local environmental policy: Information, mobilization, and media / Deserai Anderson Crow and J. Richard Stevens
  • Chapter 7. Applying technology to enhance citizen engagement with city and county government / William (Bill) S. Barnes, Jr. and Brian N. Williams
  • Chapter 8. Engaging hispanics in governance: A social constructivist interpretation / Patria de Lancer Julnes
  • Chapter 9. Online citizen participation: A case study of illinois nonprofit organizations / Alicia M. Schatteman
  • Chapter 10. Voluntary associations, nonprofit organizations, and civic engagement / Angela M. Eikenberry and Courtney Jensen
  • Part IV. Citizen participation: Innovative cases
  • Chapter 11. Citizen deliberation on health care costs: A mock courtroom experiment / Larkin Dudley
  • Chapter 12. The benson-ames alliance: An exercise in urban planning / Alan Kopetzky
  • Chapter 13. Deliberative polling: Theoretical and methodological issues of civic engagement / Jeremy Harris Lipschultz
  • Chapter 14. Citizen participation and performance: A model for citizen-based government and performance management / Marc Holzer and Lauren Bock Mullins
  • Chapter 15. An analysis of collaborative governance models in the context of shared services / Marc Holzer, Lauren Bock Mullins, Rusi Sun, and Jonathan Woolley
  • Part V. Research reflections
  • Chapter 16. Researching participation through interpretive phenomenology: The case of neighborhood organizing / María Verónica Elías
  • Chapter 17. Social psychological barriers to communicative rationality: A critical look at public participation / Walter F. Kuentzel and Curtis Ventriss
  • Part VI. Conclusion
  • Chapter 18. Theory building and testing in citizen participation research: Reflection and conjecture / Kaifeng Yang
  • About the contributors.

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