The age of direct citizen participation / edited by Nancy C. Roberts

Contributor(s): Roberts, Nancy C [Editor]
Language: English Series: ASPA classics volumePublisher: New York : M.E. Sharpe, [2008]Copyright date: c2008Description: vii, 511 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780765615138; 9780765615130Subject(s): Political participation -- United States | Direct democracy | Representative government and representationDDC classification: 323.0420973
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 government 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 [and others] -- 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 --
Summary: Citizen involvement is considered the cornerstone of democratic theory and practice. Citizens have the knowledge and ability to participate more fully in the political, technical, and administrative decisions that affect them. This work provides a framework for understanding this important subject. It is suitable for Public Administration courses.
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Includes index.

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 government 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 [and others] --
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 --

Citizen involvement is considered the cornerstone of democratic theory and practice. Citizens have the knowledge and ability to participate more fully in the political, technical, and administrative decisions that affect them. This work provides a framework for understanding this important subject. It is suitable for Public Administration courses.

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