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Empowered participation : reinventing urban democracy / Archon Fung.

Title
Empowered participation : reinventing urban democracy / Archon Fung.
Author
Fung, Archon, 1968-
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.

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Description
x, 278 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
'Empowered Participation' examines the model of participatory democracy that has emerged out of institutional innovations in Chicago, where the school boards and police department have invested heavily in shared consultation procedures involving the public at local level.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Chicago (Ill.). Police Department
  • Chicago Public Schools
  • Political participation > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies
Genre/Form
Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-269) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Democracy as a Reform Strategy -- 2. Down to the Neighborhoods -- 3. Building Capacity and Accountability -- 4. Challenges to Participation -- 5. Deliberation and Poverty -- 6. Deliberation in Social Conflict -- 7. The Chicago Experience and Beyond.
ISBN
0691115354 (CL : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003055635
OCLC
  • 52729144
  • SCSB-10311401
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library