Citizen Involvement

Author : Nancy C. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317458814

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The Age of Direct Citizen Participation by Nancy C. Roberts Pdf

Citizen involvement is considered the cornerstone of democratic theory and practice. Citizens today have the knowledge and ability to participate more fully in the political, technical, and administrative decisions that affect them. On the other hand, direct citizen participation is often viewed with skepticism, even wariness. Many argue that citizens do not have the time, preparation, or interest to be directly involved in public affairs, and suggest instead that representative democracy, or indirect citizen participation, is the most effective form of government. Some of the very best writings on this key topic - which is at the root of the entire "reinventing government" movement - can be found in the journals that ASPA publishes or sponsors. In this collection Nancy Roberts has brought together the emerging classics on the ongoing debate over citizen involvement. Her detailed introductory essay and section openers frame the key issues, provide historical context, and fill in any gaps not directly covered by the articles. More than just an anthology, "The Age of Direct Citizen Participation" provides a unique and useful framework for understanding this important subject. It is an ideal resource for any Public Administration course involving citizen engagement and performance management.

Author : Peter Beresford,Suzy Croft
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349225446

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Citizen Involvement by Peter Beresford,Suzy Croft Pdf

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 : James L. Creighton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118437049

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The Public Participation Handbook by James L. Creighton Pdf

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 : J. DeBardeleben,J. Pammett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230240902

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Activating the Citizen by J. DeBardeleben,J. Pammett Pdf

The decline of citizen involvement affects two key elements of democratic government: elections and political parties. Activating the Citizen examines the reasons underlying citizen withdrawal and explores and assesses innovative approaches on both sides of the Atlantic to try to counter these phenomena.

Author : Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar,Laura Alcaide Muñoz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319894744

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E-Participation in Smart Cities: Technologies and Models of Governance for Citizen Engagement by Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar,Laura Alcaide Muñoz Pdf

This book analyzes e-participation in smart cities. In recent decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have played a key role in the democratic political and governance process by allowing easier interaction between governments and citizens, and the increased ability of citizens to participate in the production chain of public services. E-participation plays and important role in the development of smart cities and smart communities , but it has not yet been extensively studied. This book fills that gap by combining empirical and theoretical research to analyze actual practices of citizen involvement in smart cities and build a solid framework for successful e-participation in smart cities. The book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses smart technologies and their role in improving e-participation in smart cities. Part II deals with models of e-participation in smart cities and the organization issues affecting the implementation of e-participation; these chapters analyze the efficiency of governance models in relation to the establishment of smart cities. Part III proposes incentives to motivate increased participation by governments and cititzenry within the smart cities context. Written by an international panel of experts and practitioners, this book will be a convenient source of information on e-participation in smart cities and will be valuable to academics, researchers, policy-makers, public managers, citizens, international organizations and anyone who has a stake in enhancing citizen engagement in smart cities.

Author : Ortwin Renn,Thomas Webler,Peter Wiedemann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401101318

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Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation by Ortwin Renn,Thomas Webler,Peter Wiedemann Pdf

Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse. Over a three-day period twenty-two analysts and practitioners of public participation from the United States and Europe came together to address one of the most pressing issues in contemporary environmental politics: How can environmental policies be designed in a way that achieves both effective protection of nature and an adequate representation of public values? In other words, how can we make the environmental decision process competent and fair? All the invited scholars from academia, international research institutes, and governmental agencies agreed on one fundamental principle: For environmental policies to be effective and legitimate, we need to involve the people who are or will be affected by the outcomes of these policies. There is no technocratic solution to this problem. Without public involvement, environmental policies are doomed to fail. The workshop was preceded by a joint effort by the three editors to develop a framework for evaluating different models of public participation in the environmental policy arena. During a preliminary review of the literature we made four major observations. These came to serve as the primary motivation for this book. First, the last decade has witnessed only a fair amount of interest within the sociological or political science communities in issues of public participation.

Author : Matt Ryan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529209921

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Why Citizen Participation Succeeds Or Fails by Matt Ryan Pdf

Matt Ryan draws on ten years of research to deliver this landmark comparative review of participatory budgeting, or collective decisions on spending and taxation around the world. With examples of both positive change and notable failure, the book shows when and why citizens achieve this, and how policy makers can foster democratic engagement.

Author : Katherine A. Graham,Susan D. Phillips,Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : 0920715788

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Citizen Engagement by Katherine A. Graham,Susan D. Phillips,Institute of Public Administration of Canada Pdf

Author : Randma-Liiv, Tiina,Lember, Veiko
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800374362

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Engaging Citizens in Policy Making by Randma-Liiv, Tiina,Lember, Veiko Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Exploring academic and policy thinking on e-participation, this book opens up the organizational and institutional 'black box' and provides new insights into how public administrations in 15 European states have facilitated its implementation.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264725904

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Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD Pdf

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 : M. Fagence
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483294544

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Citizen Participation in Planning by M. Fagence Pdf

The author's aim has been to draw together the threads of political and social science and of sub-specialisms within those broad areas of study and to interpret them in the context of urban and regional planning. Consideration is given to various interpretations of decision making in a democracy, to 'representation' and the public interest, to the opportunities for citizen participation in the planning process, to the range of potential participants, their motivation and competence, to the means which may be employed to secure different levels of citizen involvement; and to the impediments to meaningful participation. Therefore this book will contribute to the closing of the existing gap between theory and practice by drawing together a diversity of themes from political science, philosophy and psychology, community theory and regional science, rendering them comprehensible in the context of planning

Author : Nelson M. Rosenbaum
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Land use
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Citizen Involvement in Land Use Governance Issues and Methods by Nelson M. Rosenbaum Pdf

Author : Vera Schatten Coelho,Bettina von Liers
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848139152

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Mobilizing for Democracy by Vera Schatten Coelho,Bettina von Liers Pdf

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 : Mary L. Walsh
Publisher : International City/County Management Association(ICMA)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046491026

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Building Citizen Involvement by Mary L. Walsh Pdf

Author : Alexander Wilson,Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000436617

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Digital Participatory Planning by Alexander Wilson,Mark Tewdwr-Jones Pdf

Digital Participatory Planning outlines developments in the field of digital planning and designs and trials a range of technologies, from the use of apps and digital gaming through to social media, to examine how accessible and effective these new methods are. It critically discusses urban planning, democracy, and computing technology literature, and sets out case studies on design and deployment. It assesses whether digital technology offers an opportunity for the public to engage with urban change, to enhance public understanding and the quality of citizen participation, and to improve the proactive possibilities of urban planning more generally. The authors present an exciting alternative story of citizen engagement in urban planning through the reimagination of participation that will be of interest to students, researchers, and professionals engaged with a digital future for people and planning.