Paternalism, Conflict, and Coproduction
Author: Lawrence Susskind
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781489903617
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Paternalism, Conflict, and Coproduction
Author: Lawrence Susskind
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1489903607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A research team from the United States has completed an examination of citizen participation experiments in seven European countries. The team included Donald Appleyard, Marc Draisen, David Godschalk, Chester Hartman, Janice Perlman, Hans Spiegel, John Zeisel, and ourselves. This book is a product of our joint efforts. Our studies are aimed at summarizing and sharing what can be learned from recent European efforts to enhance the effectiveness of local government through increased public involvement in the organization and management of public services and urban redevelopment. Almost a year was spent assembling the team, developing a shared framework for analysis and identifying appropriate case study cities. European and American public officials and citizen activists helped us assess the potential impact of such a study on current practice. A second year was spent visiting the European cities and preparing the case-study drafts. Finally, team members gathered in Washington, D. C. , with fifty American and European public officials, citizen activists, and scholars. A two-day symposium provided an exciting opportunity to present preliminary research findings and encourage an exchange of ideas between researchers, activists, and policymakers. The final versions of the case studies that appear in this book, along with several commentaries by symposium participants, are written especially for city officials and citizen activists. We have tried to translate the results of our scholarly inquiry into pragmatic suggestions for officials and activists.
Neighbourhood Policy and Programmes
Author: Naomi Carmon
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1349210579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume, comprised of original contributions by experienced urban planners and distinguished social scientists, sets forth the accumulated experience directed at improving the quality of life in our cities through neighbourhood programs. Policy issues, housing programs and job development plans, along with organizational innovations aimed at redistribution of power, are described and evaluated.
Handbook of Community Psychology
Author: Julian Rappaport
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 1046
ISBN-13: 146154193X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This comprehensive handbook, the first in its field, brings together 106 different contributors. The 38 interrelated but at the same time independent chapters discuss key areas including conceptual frameworks; empirically grounded constructs; intervention strategies and tactics; social systems; designs, assessment, and analysis; cross-cutting professional issues; and contemporary intersections with related fields such as violence prevention and HIV/AIDS.
Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit
Author: Munoz, Juan Carlos
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2016-01-10
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1447326180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors from both developed and developing countries bring expertise in fields ranging from engineering, planning and public policy to economics and urban design to provide a big picture assessment of BRT as part of a process for restructuring transit systems. Academically rigorous, based on five years of research conducted by the BRT Centre of Excellence in Chile, the book is written in an accessible style making it a valuable resource for academic researchers and postgraduate students as well as policy makers and practitioners.
Public Lands Conflict and Resolution
Author: Julia M. Wondolleck
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 148990798X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The United States Forest Service, perhaps more than any other federal agency, has made great strides during the past two decades revolution izing its public involvement efforts and reshaping its profile through the hiring of professionals in many disciplinary areas long absent in the agency. In fact, to a large extent, the agency has been doing precisely what everyone has been clamoring for it to do: involving the public more in its decisions; hiring more wildlife biologists, recreation specialists, sociologists, planners, and individuals with "people skills"; and, fur thermore, taking a more comprehensive and long-term view in planning the future of the national forests. The result has been significant-in some ways, monumental-changes in the agency and its land manage ment practices. There are provisions for public input in almost all as pects of national forest management today. The profeSSional disciplines represented throughout the agency's ranks are markedly more diverse than they have ever been. Moreover, no stone is left untumed in the agency's current forest-planning effort, undoubtedly the most compre hensive, interdisciplinary planning effort ever undertaken by a resource agency in the United States. Regardless of the dramatic change that has occurred in the U. S. Forest Service since the early 1970s, the agency is still plagued by con flicts arising from dissatisfaction ~th how it is doing business.
Negotiation
Author: Lavinia Hall
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 1992-12-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1452285764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With contributions from top scholars in the field of negotiation, this clear and entertaining volume effectively blends technique with theory to present frameworks for effective negotiating, analyses of person-to-person negotiating situations and applications in organizational settings. Building on the concept that conflict, when managed well, can provide the impetus for growth, constructive change and mutual benefit, the book is dedicated to breaking the paradigm of winning and losing and transforming negotiation into a search for improved solutions to problems.
Designing Public Policy for Co-production
Author: Durose, Catherine
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 144731669X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A response to myriad crises of public policy, this important and original book contributes to a growing debate, arguing that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are inadequate to cope with increasingly complex challenges. Drawing on twelve compelling international contributions from practitioners, policy makers, activists, and actively engaged academics,Rethinking Public Policy-Making uses ideas of power to explore how genuine democratic involvement in the policy process from outside the political elite can shape society for the better. An indispensable resource for researchers and students of public policy, public administration, sociology, and politics, this book offers profound insight into why and how to generate change in policy processes, arguing for increased experimentation in policy design.
Politics and Policy Implementation
Author: Frederick A. Lazin
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1438410247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyzes how the political system influences domestic policy implementation in Israel. It shows how coalition politics, party dominated ministries, an independent and fragmented Jewish Agency, diaspora Jewish communities, powerful mayors, and ethnic considerations influenced the implementation of Begin's Project Renewal, a hybrid of the American War on Poverty, Urban Renewal, and Model Cities. It also reveals how Project Renewal initiated change in Israel's political institutions and public policy system.
Environmental Dispute Resolution
Author: Lawrence S. Bacow
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1489922962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book has its origins in an M.I.T. research project that was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Our immediate objective was to prepare a set of case studies that examined bargaining and negotiation as they occurred between government, environmental advocates, and regulatees throughout the traditional regulatory process. The project was part of a larger effort by the EPA to make environmental regulation more efficient and less litigious. The principal investigator for the research effort was Lawrence Sus skind of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Eight case studies were prepared under the joint supervision of Susskind and the authors of this book. Studying the negotiating behavior of parties as we worked our way through an environmental dispute proved enlightening. We observed missed oppor tunities for settlement, negotiating tactics that backfired, and strategies that ap peared to be grounded more in intuition than in thoughtful analysis. At the same time, however, we were struck by how often the parties ultimately managed to muddle through. People negotiated not out of some idealistic commitment to consensus but because they thought it better served their own interests. When some negotiations reached an impasse, people improvised mediation. These disputants succeeded in spite of legal and institutional barriers, even though few of them had a sophisticated understanding of negotiation.
