The age of direct citizen participation
By: edited by Nancy C. Roberts.
Contributors: Roberts, Nancy Charlotte.
Series: ASPA series
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780765615121
Subjects: Political participation -- United States; Direct democracy; Representative government and representation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Direct citizen participation: challenges and dilemmas; title: Administrative theory and direct citizen participation; title: Citizens as social learners; title: The recovery of civism in public administration / H. George Frederickson; title: Toward a public philosophy of public administration: a civic perspective of the public / Curtis Ventriss; title: Facilitating community, enabling democracy: new roles for local government managers / John Nalbandian; title: The new public service: serving rather than steering / Robert B. Denhardt and Janet Vinzant Denhardt; title: Citizens as co-producers, owners, and co-investors; title: Citizenship and service delivery: the promise of coproduction / Charles H. Levine; title: Reinventing government or reinventing ourselves: two models for improving covernment performance / Hindy Lauer Schachter; title: Reframing the metaphor of the citizen-government relationship: a value-centered perspective / Gerald E. Smith and Carole A. Huntsman; title: Arenas of direct citizen participation policy implementation: programs and sectors; title: Citizen participation in community action and model cities programs / John H. Strange; title: Decentralization and citizen participation in education / Marilyn Gittell; title: Decentralization and citizen participation in criminal justice systems / Richard A. Myren; title: Community participation and modernization: a reexamination of political choices / Curtis Ventriss and Rorbert Pecorella; title: Policy analysis, initiation and budgeting; title: The democratization of the policy sciences / Peter deLeon; title: Public deliberation: an alternative approach to crafting policy and setting direction / Nancy Roberts; title: The relationship between citizen involvement in the budget process and city structure and culture / Carol Ebon; title: Mechanisms of direct citizen participation; title: Individual participation; title: 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; title: Small group participation; title: Emergent citizen groups and emergency management / Robert A. Stallings and E.L. Quarantelli; title: Citizens panels: a new approach to citizen participation / Ned Crosby, Janet M. Kelly, and Paul Schaefer; title: Large group participation; title: Consensus-building for integrated resources planning / Lance de-Haven-Smith and John R. Wodraska; title: State strategic planning: suggestions from the Oregon experience / Gerald R. Kissler, Karmen N. Fore, Willow S. Jacobson, William P. Kittredge, and Scott Stewart; title: The practice of deliberative democracy: results from four large-scale trials / Edward C. Weeks; title: Electronic participation; title: Reinventing the democratic governance project through information technology? A growing agenda for debate / Andrew Kakabadse, Nada K. Kakabadse, and Alexander Kouzmin; title: Assessments of direct citizen participation; title: Resident participation: political mobilization or organizational co-optation? / David M. Austin; title: Citizen participation in the Philadelphia model cities program: retrospect and prospect / Erasmus Kloman; title: Citizen participation: can we measure its effectiveness? / Judy B. Rosener; title: Making bureaucrats responsive: a study of the impact of citizen participation and staff recommendations on regulatory decision making / Judy B. Rosener; title: The question of participation: toward authentic public participation in public administration / Cheryl Simrell King, Kathryn M. Feltey, and Bridget O'Neill Susel; title: Assessing public participation in U.S. cities / XiaoHu Wang; title: Administrative agents of democracy? A structural equation modeling of the relationship between public-sector performance and citizenship involvement / Eran Vigoda; title: Building theories of direct citizen participation; title: Public involvement in public management: adapting and testing a borrowed theory / John Clayton Thomas; title: Putting more public in policy analysis / Lawrence C. Walters, James Aydelotte, and Jessica Miller; title: From responsiveness to collaboration: governance, citizens, and the next generation of public administration / Eran Vigoda; title: Direct citizen participation: coming of age; title: Index; title: About the editor.