Title: Varieties of Civic Innovation
Description: "In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation. They examine lived reality and theoretical underpinning, promise and accomplishment, but also the pitfalls and capacity-building challenges that face virtually all attempts to bring citizen voice, knowledge, and skill to the center of public problem solving. Their analyses are both hopeful and hard-headed and are guided by commitments to help understand appropriate fit and realistic sustainability. Cases include face-to-face deliberation, online networking and citizen journalism, policy forums, and community and stakeholder planning sessions across local, state and federal contexts. Policy issues run a broad gamut from community and regional economic development and environmental sustainability to minority rights and gay marriage"--
Subjects: Political planning, Public administration, Political participation, Organizational change, Case studies, Citizen participation, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Sociology, General, Public Policy, City Planning & Urban Development