The age of direct citizen participation /

Other Authors: Roberts, Nancy Charlotte.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Direct citizen participation: challenges and dilemmas
  • Administrative theory and direct citizen participation
  • Citizens as social learners
  • The recovery of civism in public administration / H. George Frederickson
  • Toward a public philosophy of public administration: a civic perspective of the public / Curtis Ventriss
  • Facilitating community, enabling democracy: new roles for local government managers / John Nalbandian
  • The new public service: serving rather than steering / Robert B. Denhardt and Janet Vinzant Denhardt
  • Citizens as coproducers, owners, and co-investors
  • Citizenship and service delivery: the promise of coproduction / Charles H. Levine
  • Reinventing government or reinventing ourselves: two models for improving covernment performance / Hindy Lauer Schachter
  • Reframing the metaphor of the citizen-government relationship: a value-centered perspective / Gerald E. Smith and Carole A. Huntsman
  • Arenas of direct citizen participation
  • Policy implementation: programs and sectors
  • Citizen participation in community action and model cities programs / John H. Strange
  • Decentralization and citizen participation in education / Marilyn Gittell
  • Decentralization and citizen participation in criminal justice systems / Richard A. Myren
  • Community participation and modernization: a reexamination of political choices / Curtis Ventriss and Rorbert Pecorella
  • Policy analysis, initiation, and budgeting
  • The democratization of the policy sciences / Peter deLeon
  • Public deliberation: an alternative approach to crafting policy and setting direction / Nancy Roberts
  • The relationship between citizen involvement in the budget process and city structure and culture / Carol Ebdon
  • Mechanisms of direct citizen participation
  • Individual participation
  • Institutionalized use of citizen surveys in the budgetary and policy-making processes: a small city case study / Douglas J. Watson, Robert J. Juster, and Gerald W. Johnson
  • Small group participation
  • Emergent citizen groups and emergency management / Robert A. Stallings and E.L. Quarantelli
  • Citizens panels: a new approach to citizen participation / Ned Crosby, Janet M. Kelly, and Paul Schaefer
  • Large group participation
  • Consensus-building for integrated resources planning / Lance deHaven-Smith and John R. Wodraska
  • State strategic planning: suggestions from the Oregon experience / Gerald R. Kissler ... [et al.]
  • The practice of deliberative democracy: results from four large-scale trials / Edward C. Weeks
  • Electronic participation
  • Reinventing the democratic governance project through information technology? A growing agenda for debate / Andrew Kakabadse, Nada K. Kakabadse, and Alexander Kouzmin
  • Assessments of direct citizen participation
  • Resident participation: political mobilization or organizational co-optation? / David M. Austin
  • Citizen participation in the Philadelphia model cities program: retrospect and prospect / Erasmus Kloman
  • Citizen participation: can we measure its effectiveness? / Judy B. Rosener
  • Making bureaucrats responsive: a study of the impact of citizen participation and staff recommendations on regulatory decision making / Judy B. Rosener
  • The question of participation: toward authentic public participation in public administration / Cheryl Simrell King, Kathryn M. Feltey, and Bridget O'Neill Susel
  • Assessing public participation in U.S. cities / XiaoHu Wang
  • Administrative agents of democracy? A structural equation modeling of the relationship between public-sector performance and citizenship involvement / Eran Vigoda
  • Building theories of direct citizen participation
  • Public involvement in public management: adapting and testing a borrowed theory / John Clayton Thomas
  • Putting more public in policy analysis / Lawrence C. Walters, James Aydelotte, and Jessica Miller
  • From responsiveness to collaboration: governance, citizens, and the next generation of public administration / Eran Vigoda
  • Direct citizen participation: coming of age
  • Index
  • About the editor.