Citizen Governance: Leading American Communities Into the 21st CenturyChronicle Books, 1998 M01 8 - 200 páginas Drawing on fundamental ideas about the relationship of citizens to the public sphere, Richard C Box presents a model of `citizen governance'. Recognizing the challenges in the community governance setting, he advocates rethinking the structure of local government and the roles of citizens, elected officials and public professionals in the twenty-first century. His model shifts a large part of the responsibility for local public policy from the professional and the elected official to the citizen. Citizens take part directly in creating and implementing policy, elected officials coordinate the policy process, and public professionnals facilitate citizen discourse, offering the knowledge of public practice needed for successful `citizen gover |
Contenido
A Return to Original Values | 1 |
Citizens | 3 |
The Nature of Community Governance | 27 |
10 | 56 |
Models of American Citizenship | 66 |
Critical Theory | 75 |
12 | 83 |
Barriers to Citizen Governance | 86 |
Practitioners | 119 |
Citizen Governance | 147 |
References | 168 |
22 | 170 |
| 176 | |
| 177 | |
About the Author | 185 |
The Individual Knowledge Limit | 92 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Citizen Governance: Leading American Communities Into the 21st Century Richard C. Box Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
Citizen Governance: Leading American Communities Into the 21st Century Richard C. Box Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
Citizen Governance: Leading American Communities Into the 21st Century Richard C. Box Vista de fragmentos - 1998 |
Términos y frases comunes
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