Citizen Participation in Public Decision Making - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizen Participation in Public Decision Making write by Jack DeSario. This book was released on 1987-01-13. Citizen Participation in Public Decision Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As services provided by government have expanded over the past several decades, so inevitably, has bureaucracy--especially the corps of professional administrators in charge of programs ranging from health care to the maintenance of efficient transportation networks. Under pressure from reform groups to promote public accountability by involving citizens in the decision-making process, government has begun to place private citizens on many important health, education, transportation, and environmental planning bodies. This study of citizen participation and technocracy, written by twelve prominent specialists, provides the first comprehensive theoretical and empirical analyses of these recent developments and their impact on formulating, directing, and implementing public policies.
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave write by OECD. This book was released on 2020-06-10. Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least one full day – and often much longer – to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues.
The Public Participation Handbook
The Public Participation Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Public Participation Handbook write by James L. Creighton. This book was released on 2005-03-11. The Public Participation Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Internationally renowned facilitator and public participation consultant James L. Creighton offers a practical guide to designing and facilitating public participation of the public in environmental and public policy decision making. Written for government officials, public and community leaders, and professional facilitators, The Public Participation Handbook is a toolkit for designing a participation process, selecting techniques to encourage participation, facilitating successful public meetings, working with the media, and evaluating the program. The book is also filled with practical advice, checklists, worksheets, and illustrative examples.
Evaluating Public Participation in Policy Making
Evaluating Public Participation in Policy Making - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evaluating Public Participation in Policy Making write by OECD. This book was released on 2005-08-16. Evaluating Public Participation in Policy Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the key issues for consideration when evaluating information, consultation and public participation.
The Participation Gap
The Participation Gap - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Participation Gap write by Russell J. Dalton. This book was released on 2017-10-06. The Participation Gap available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends. More people in the established democracies are participating in civil society activity, contacting government officials, protesting, and using online activism and other creative forms of participation. At the same time, the importance of social status as an influence on political activity is increasing. The democratic principle of the equality of voice is eroding. The politically rich are getting richer-and the politically needy have less voice. This book assembles an unprecedented set of international public opinion surveys to identify the individual, institutional, and political factors that produce these trends. New forms of activity place greater demands on participants, raising the importance of social status skills and resources. Civil society activity further widens the participation gap. New norms of citizenship shift how people participate. And generational change and new online forms of activism accentuate this process. Effective and representative government requires a participatory citizenry and equal voice, and participation trends are undermining these outcomes. The Participation Gap both documents the growing participation gap in contemporary democracies and suggests ways that we can better achieve their theoretical ideal of a participatory citizenry and equal voice.
