Public policy in the community
By: Marilyn Taylor
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230242654
Subjects: Political sociology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; Political participation; Community power
Description: ""Community" continues to attract the attention of policy makers and scholars.  Taking account of changes since the publication of the first edition, this new edition explores the challenges of empowering communities and assesses the lessons for policy and practice of community-based approaches to social disadvantage and exclusion"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: The Changing Fortunes of Community; title: Community in Policy and Practice; title: Ideas of Community; title: Contradictions of Community; title: Prescribing Community to the Poor; title: Power and Empowerment; title: Power in the Policy Process; title: Experiencing Empowerment; title: Reclaiming Community; title: Reclaiming Power; title: The Challenge for Communities; title: The Institutional Challenge; title: Community Empowerment: Myth or Reality?.