Getting Citizens Involved

Author : Paul D. Epstein,Paul M. Coates,Lyle D. Wray,David Swain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0787983179

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Results that Matter by Paul D. Epstein,Paul M. Coates,Lyle D. Wray,David Swain Pdf

Today's communities—whether they are currently strong, orstruggling to survive—face difficult challenges if they wantto be tomorrow's healthy, vibrant communities. The challenge forleaders and citizens of modern communities is not just to solvespecific problems today. Their real challenge is to keep learningfrom their experience so they can keep improving their communitiestomorrow. Results That Matter will provide a new governanceframework for using valuable tools of communityimprovement—especially performance measurement and citizenengagement—to empower communities to achieve the outcomestheir citizens most desire. Government and nonprofit managers willlearn how to combine these tools in new ways, not only to achieveone-time improvement of their organizations and communities, but tofoster continual community renewal and improvement. The benefitsand practicality of the framework and related practices will bereinforced by case examples from 25 communities across the country.The book will offer "how to" guidance to public and nonprofitmanagers, including promising practices for effective communities,and new roles for citizens, community leaders, and managers.

Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0102930376

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Getting Citizens Involved by Great Britain. National Audit Office Pdf

The single Community Programme is a Government initiative which seeks to encourage local community participation in local policy-making across England and in the design of the public services they receive. The initiative is expected to cost around £182 million between the years 2001-2006 and targets the most deprived local authority districts in England. It seeks to ensure the representation of diverse community needs through the provision of grants to community groups involved in improving their neighbourhoods, and support for community empowerment networks that help communities influence local decision-making. The scheme has so far supported around 25,000 separate self-help and community projects, funded directly through local voluntary sector organisations. This report focuses on the effectiveness of the single Community Programme in encouraging communities to get involved in neighbourhood renewal and regeneration schemes, and seeks to identify broader lessons of relevance to community participation initiatives across the whole of government.

Author : Gabriel Chanan,European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Publisher : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015041768170

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Active Citizenship and Community Involvement by Gabriel Chanan,European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions Pdf

Author : Evert A. Lindquist,Sam Vincent,John Wanna
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781922144348

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Putting Citizens First by Evert A. Lindquist,Sam Vincent,John Wanna Pdf

This book explores the ways in which governments are putting citizens first in their policy-making endeavours. Making citizens the focus of policy interventions and involving them in the delivery and design is for many governments a normative ideal; it is a worthy objective and sounds easy to achieve. But the reality is that putting citizens at the centre of policy-making is hard and confronting. Are governments really serious in their ambitions to put citizens first? Are they prepared for the challenges and demands such an approach will demand? Are they prepared to commit the time and resources to ensure genuine engagement takes place and that citizens' interests are considered foremost? And, more importantly, are governments prepared for the trade-offs, risks and loss of control such citizen-centric approaches will inevitably involve?

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Naila Kabeer
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1842775499

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Inclusive Citizenship by Naila Kabeer Pdf

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 : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264195564

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Citizens as Partners Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-Making by OECD Pdf

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 : Sergiu Gherghina
Publisher : Mdpi AG
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3036524088

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Political Participation and Sustainability by Sergiu Gherghina Pdf

Over the last two decades, the literature on political participation has flourished, reflecting the increasing use of diverse modes of citizen involvement. These include established modes of participation, such as voting, protests, mass demonstrations, and petition signing, but also newer modes specific to the online environment (ICT-related), participation in referendums, public consultations, or engagement in political deliberation. The importance and intensity of these modes is reflected both in the number of people getting involved and in the increasing number of policies that are subject to various modes of participation on a regular basis. There is extensive literature about how these modes of participation function, why people get involved, and the consequences of their participation. However, limited attention is paid to the relationship between political participation and the pursuit of sustainability at a local, regional, or central level. Existing studies indicate that citizen engagement can be a cost-effective method to characterize changes of local environments; however, not much is known beyond this process. This Special Issue aims to address this void in the literature and brings together contributions that analyze how participation can be associated with sustainability and local development in various settings. It explores the relationship between political participation and the management of their local environment. This Special Issue enhances the existing knowledge and understanding about how modes of participation can be reflected in stronger sustainability. The Special Issue provides the space for an academic debate that addresses issues such as climate change, resource allocation, or the pursuit of sustainability programs and policies. The contributions include a mix of single-case studies and comparative analyses across European countries.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001802

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Schools in action, global citizens for sustainable development by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Katrin Vohland,Anne Land-zandstra,Luigi Ceccaroni,Rob Lemmens,Josep Perelló,Marisa Ponti,Roeland Samson,Katherin Wagenknecht
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9783030582784

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The Science of Citizen Science by Katrin Vohland,Anne Land-zandstra,Luigi Ceccaroni,Rob Lemmens,Josep Perelló,Marisa Ponti,Roeland Samson,Katherin Wagenknecht Pdf

This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists to citizens and from policy makers to environmental organisations have been involved in its practice. In addition, many scientists also study citizen science as a research approach and as a way for science and society to interact and collaborate. This book provides a representation of the practices as well as scientific and societal outcomes in different disciplines. It reflects the contribution of citizen science to societal development, education, or innovation and provides and overview of the field of actors as well as on tools and guidelines. It serves as an introduction for anyone who wants to get involved in and learn more about the science of citizen science.

Author : Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman,R. W. Hildreth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781317993537

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Becoming Citizens by Ross VeLure Roholt,Michael Baizerman,R. W. Hildreth Pdf

The decreasing rate of involvement in organized groups and with voting by young people is a disturbing trend that perhaps can be turned around. Becoming Citizens: Deepening the Craft of Youth Civic Engagement brings together civic education, experiential education, and political theory to provide a revealing multiple-perspective examination of the new alternative way of practice in the youth work field called civic youth work. This helpful resource bridges the theory of civic engagement with education, ground both in extensive data, and then discuss various youth civic engagement initiatives that battle apathy and effectively invite expanded involvement by young people. This title examines three different youth civic engagement initiatives, Public Achievement (PA), Youth in Government (YIG), and Youth Science Center (YSC). The book then discusses the initiatives from various perspectives, including the academic perspectives of educational theory, political theory, theories of youth, and vocation. This unique source offers multiple points-of-view and is designed to enrich both the theoretical and practical for practitioners and scholars—and provides a revealing and useful look at the available sources. This book is a valuable resource for secondary social studies teachers; school district curriculum coordinators; youth workers; university faculty in political theory, democratic theory, youth studies, child and youth care, recreational studies, public health, education, and social work; youth and community organizers; and program directors and managers in community-based youth services. This book was published as a special issue of Child and Youth Services.

Author : Sidney Verba,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Henry E. Brady
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674942930

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Voice and Equality by Sidney Verba,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Henry E. Brady Pdf

This book confirms the idea put forth by Tocqueville that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism—citizens’ involvement in family, work, school, and religion, as well as in their political participation as voters, campaigners, protesters, or community activists. The authors analyze civic activity with a massive survey of 15,000 people.

Author : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0160831180

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Learn about the United States by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Pdf

"Learn About the United States" is intended to help permanent residents gain a deeper understanding of U.S. history and government as they prepare to become citizens. The product presents 96 short lessons, based on the sample questions from which the civics portion of the naturalization test is drawn. An audio CD that allows students to listen to the questions, answers, and civics lessons read aloud is also included. For immigrants preparing to naturalize, the chance to learn more about the history and government of the United States will make their journey toward citizenship a more meaningful one.

Author : Yunqing SHI
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004503441

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Becoming Citizens in China by Yunqing SHI Pdf

In Becoming Citizens in China Shi Yunqing describes the two interlinked histories that have made China’s urban and economic miracle: the unfolding of inner city renewal and the production of citizen. __________ 在《再造城民》这本书中,施芸卿讲述了造就中国城市和经济奇迹的两段互为表里的历史:旧城的再造与公民的生产。

Author : Peter Levine
Publisher : Tufts University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781611687880

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The Future of Democracy by Peter Levine Pdf

We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for institutions such as schools, and for young people themselves, who are more likely to succeed in life if they are engaged in their communities. In The Future of Democracy, Peter Levine, scholar and practitioner, sounds the alarm: in recent years, young Americans have become dangerously less engaged. They are tolerant, patriotic, and idealistic, and some have invented such novel and impressive forms of civic engagement, as blogs, "buycott" movements, and transnational youth networks. But most lack the skills and opportunities they need to participate in politics or address public problems. Levine's timely manifesto clearly explains the causes, symptoms, and repercussions of this damaging trend, and, most importantly, the means whereby America can confront and reverse it. Levine demonstrates how to change young people's civic attitudes, skills, and knowledge and, equally importantly, to reform our institutions so that civic engagement is rewarding and effective. We must both prepare citizens for politics and improve politics for citizens.