Empowered Participation
Subtitle: Reinventing Urban Democracy
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780691126081
Subjects: Local government; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Urban communities; Sociology; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Illinois; Sociology - Urban; Educational Policy & Reform; Education; Political Science / General; Political Science and International Relations; Government - Local; General; Case studies; Chicago; Chicago (Ill.).; Chicago Public Schools; Police Dept; Political participation
First sentence: IN 1996, the parents, staff, and principal of Southtown Elementary School executed a coup to make the neighborhood school their own.