Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation (Urban Policy Challanges)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780813368245
Subjects: Central government policies; Human rights; Social research & statistics; Government - State & Provincial; Business / Economics / Finance; Business & Economics; United States; Business/Economics; USA; Government spending policy; Public Finance; Business & Economics / Public Finance; Budget; Citizen participation; Political participation
First sentence: Before considering the host of contemporary techniques that governments are using to bring citizen participation into their decision-making processes, we pause to consider how we have arrived at our present understanding of citizen involvement processes.
Description: "Not all citizens seek to extract a "free lunch" from government by demanding more services at the same time that they eschew taxes. It is possible to gather the insights of a representative and informed citizenry in a sophisticated and reliable form. Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation explores the means to obtaining informed insight from citizens in ways that can aid decisionmakers who seek to understand the preferences of the public as a whole - not just from its most vocal critics.".

"Simonsen and Robbins present a description and analysis of several specific participation efforts from throughout the United States. They also examine more generally the idea of participation mechanisms, the objectives they seek to achieve, and the roots of their contributions to governance."--BOOK JACKET.