Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy
"A wonderful book: theoretically compelling, analytically insightful, empirically careful. It is a highly-skilled merger of arguments in democratic theory and applications in real world situations. It is well-written, clean, (almost) jargon-free and compelling."--Mark Carl Rom,Democracy & Society"A judicious, thorough, and multifaceted study of important questions in democratic theory. It is well worth reading."--William Nelson,Ethics"[This] book masterfully dissects terms and rebuts claims of the unfeasibility or inadequacy of public participation in policy."--Richard A. Couto,Perspectives on Politics"Empowered Participationprovides some much-needed empirical endeavor to a field that is mostly theoretical. . . . [It is] an important work which anyone interested in community organization, civic engagement, community policing, and democratic theory should read."--Patrick J. Carr,American Journal of Sociology"Archon Fung makes an indispensable contribution to deliberative democratic theory."--Michael RabinderJames, Political Theory