Neighborhood Democracy

Author : Richard Guarasci
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000980462

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Neighborhood Democracy by Richard Guarasci Pdf

Published in association with Higher education and America stand at a perilous moment brought about by economic and social inequality, racism, and the fracture of civic cohesion and structures.From its origins, the mission of American higher education was to promote democratic governance and a free, fair, and orderly society through the education of responsible citizens. Just as its mission has become more urgent, it is being undermined as colleges and universities find themselves trapped in a fiscal crisis that threatens their very institutional viability—a crisis in large part brought about by the very perpetuation of economic and racial inequity, and the consequent erosion of consensus about civic purpose and vision.This book argues that higher education can and must again take leadership in promoting the participatory processes and instilling the democratic values needed to build a vibrant and fair society. How to do that when, as Guarasci argues, a majority of colleges and universities are floundering under a business model that generates insufficient net revenue while making college unaffordable?Guarasci offers a model of civic mission and engagement whereby, through relatively modest investment, colleges can develop reciprocal partnerships with local institutions, civic, and business groups to raise the quality and outcomes of K-12 education, promote local entrepreneurship and community involvement, raise incomes, and increase the attainment of postsecondary education to benefit the wider national economy and colleges around the region and country. He demonstrates how civic engagement can revitalize communities and generate developmental and foundation funding.Vividly illustrated by the examples of success of students from the shadow community to which Wagner College committed its energies and resources, by the stories of the local schools and their principals, and the voices of local partners, this book offers a compelling and detailed account of what it takes to transform an institution and a neighborhood—and a model of renewal.

Author : Traci Burch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226065090

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Trading Democracy for Justice by Traci Burch Pdf

The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented. What’s more, they tend to come from just a few of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in the country. While the political costs of this phenomenon remain poorly understood, it’s become increasingly clear that the effects of this mass incarceration are much more pervasive than previously thought, extending beyond those imprisoned to the neighbors, family, and friends left behind. For Trading Democracy for Justice, Traci Burch has drawn on data from neighborhoods with imprisonment rates up to fourteen times the national average to chart demographic features that include information about imprisonment, probation, and parole, as well as voter turnout and volunteerism. She presents powerful evidence that living in a high-imprisonment neighborhood significantly decreases political participation. Similarly, people living in these neighborhoods are less likely to engage with their communities through volunteer work. What results is the demobilization of entire neighborhoods and the creation of vast inequalities—even among those not directly affected by the criminal justice system. The first book to demonstrate the ways in which the institutional effects of imprisonment undermine already disadvantaged communities, Trading Democracy for Justice speaks to issues at the heart of democracy.

Author : Jane A. Grant
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742526151

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Community, Democracy, and the Environment by Jane A. Grant Pdf

Grant concludes with some directions for how we may better learn of share the future with each other and the many species that share our planet."--Jacket.

Author : Benjamin Barber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0520242335

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Strong Democracy by Benjamin Barber Pdf

"One of the chosen few: an enduring contribution to democratic thought."—Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

Author : Ken Thomson
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584658306

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From Neighborhood to Nation by Ken Thomson Pdf

A study of the unique impact of participatory and representative democracy on policy outcomes at local, state, and national levels.

Author : Douglas Yates
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : D.C. Heath
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001786964

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Neighborhood Democracy by Douglas Yates Pdf

Author : David de la Pena,Diane Jones Allen,Randolph T. Hester,Laura J. Lawson
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610918473

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Design as Democracy by David de la Pena,Diane Jones Allen,Randolph T. Hester,Laura J. Lawson Pdf

How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table with designers to collectively create vibrant, important places in cities and neighborhoods. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, it offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.

Author : William E. Hudson
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506301853

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American Democracy in Peril by William E. Hudson Pdf

In this Eighth Edition of American Democracy in Peril, author William E. Hudson provides a perceptive analysis of the challenges our democracy faces in the current era: economic crisis, partisan gridlock, rising economic inequality, and continued military conflict in the Middle East and elsewhere. By introducing the history of democratic theory in terms of four “models” of democracy, he provides readers with a set of criteria against which to evaluate the challenges discussed later. This provocative book offers a structured, yet critical examination of the American political system, designed to stimulate students to consider how the facts they learn about American politics relate to democratic ideals.

Author : Carmen Sirianni
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815703617

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Investing in Democracy by Carmen Sirianni Pdf

The health of American democracy ultimately depends on our willingness and ability to work together as citizens and stakeholders in our republic. Government policies often fail to promote such collaboration. But if designed properly, they can do much to strengthen civic engagement. That is the central message of Carmen Sirianni's eloquent new book. Rather than encourage citizens to engage in civic activity, government often puts obstacles in their way. Many agencies treat citizens as passive clients rather than as community members, overlooking their ability to mobilize assets and networks to solve problems. Many citizen initiatives run up against rigid rules and bureaucratic silos, causing all but the most dedicated activists to lose heart. The unfortunate—and unnecessary—result is a palpable decline in the quality of civic life. Fortunately, growing numbers of policymakers across the country are figuring out how government can serve as a partner and catalyst for collaborative problem solving. Investing in Democracy details three such success stories: neighborhood planning in Seattle; youth civic engagement programs in Hampton, Virginia; and efforts to develop civic environmentalism at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The book explains what measures were taken and why they succeeded. It distills eight core design principles that characterize effective collaborative governance and concludes with concrete recommendations for federal policy.

Author : William E. Hudson
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452226750

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American Democracy in Peril: Eight Challenges to America's Future, 7th Edition by William E. Hudson Pdf

American Democracy in Peril encapsulates the tumultuous state of American politics. By introducing the history of democratic theory in terms of four "models" of democracy, Hudson provides readers with a set of criteria against which to evaluate the challenges discussed later. This provocative book offers a structured yet critical examination of the American political system, designed to stimulate students to consider how the facts they learn about American politics relate to democratic ideals. This new edition incorporates the Trump Presidency and the polarization that has accompanied his leadership. -- Provided by Publisher --

Author : Eduardo Canel
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271037332

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Barrio Democracy in Latin America by Eduardo Canel Pdf

The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local governance emphasizing more participation by ordinary citizens. The hope is both to foster the spread of democracy and to improve equity in the distribution of resources. While participatory budgeting has been a favorite topic of many scholars studying this new phenomenon, there are many other types of ongoing experiments. In Barrio Democracy in Latin America, Eduardo Canel focuses our attention on the innovative participatory programs launched by the leftist government in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the early 1990s. Based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Canel examines how local activists in three low-income neighborhoods in that city dealt with the opportunities and challenges of implementing democratic practices and building better relationships with sympathetic city officials.

Author : Richard Guarasci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1003446132

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Neighborhood Democracy by Richard Guarasci Pdf

Author : Nancy L. Rosenblum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691180762

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Good Neighbors by Nancy L. Rosenblum Pdf

The moral principles prescribed for friendship, civil society, and democratic public life apply imperfectly to life around home, where we interact day to day without the formal institutions, rules of conduct, and means of enforcement that guide us in other settings. This work explores how encounters among neighbours create a democracy of everyday life, which has been with us since the beginning of American history and is expressed in settler, immigrant, and suburban narratives and in novels, poetry, and popular culture.

Author : Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso
Publisher : International Development Research Centre Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019810618

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Community Power and Grassroots Democracy by Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso Pdf

The collected essays in this book provide a comparative examination of the process of grassroots mobilization and the development of community-based forms of popular democracy in Central and South America. The first part contains studies from individual countries on organizations ranging from those supported by governments and integrated into the country's political structure to groups that were organized against the existing political system. The organizations studied included those focusing on a particular concern, such as housing, and those with wide responsibility for community affairs; but all were organizations based on common interests where people lived and, in some cases, where people worked. The second part offers theme studies on men, women and differential participation; problems and meanings associated with decentralization, especially in relation to devolution of power to the local level and the construction of popular alternatives; and the competing theoretical paradigms of new social movements and resource mobilization.

Author : Benjamin Looker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226290454

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A Nation of Neighborhoods by Benjamin Looker Pdf

Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood as both an endless problem and a possibility. Looker investigates the cultural, social, and political complexities of the idea of “neighborhood” in postwar America and how Americans grappled with vast changes in their urban spaces from World War II to the Reagan era. In the face of urban decline, competing visions of the city neighborhood’s significance and purpose became proxies for broader debates over the meaning and limits of American democracy. By studying the way these contests unfolded across a startling variety of genres—Broadway shows, radio plays, urban ethnographies, real estate documents, and even children’s programming—Looker shows that the neighborhood ideal has functioned as a central symbolic site for advancing and debating theories about American national identity and democratic practice.