Power, participation and political renewal
Case studies in public participation
by Marian Barnes, Janet Newman and Helen Sullivan
The authors of this title offer a critical examination of both the
discourse and practice of participation, to understand the
significance of this explosion in participatory forums and the extent
to which such practices represent a fundamental change in governance.
Extracts from this title can be read in our reading room:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/general/reading_room.php
Autori: La Valle, Davide
Titolo: A cosa servono le associazioni
Periodico: Quaderni di sociologia
Anno: 2005
Volume: 49
Fascicolo: 39
Pagina iniziale: 73
Pagina finale: 97
Governance, Complexity, and Democratic Participation: How Citizens
and Public Officials Harness the Complexities of Neighborhood Decline
Hendrik Wagenaar
The American Review of Public Administration 2007;37 17-50
http://arp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/1/17
Volker, B., H. Flap, et al. (2007).
"When Are Neighbourhoods Communities? Community in Dutch
Neighbourhoods."
European Sociological Review 23(1): 99-114.
This study investigates the degree to which community can be found in
Dutch neighbourhoods and attempts to explain why there is more
community in some neighbourhoods than in others. We apply a
perspective on community which assumes that people create communities
with the expectation to realize some important well-being goals.
Conditions that account for the creation of a local community are
specified, i.e. the opportunity, ease, and motivation to do so. These
conditions are realized when (i) neighbourhoods have more meeting
places; (ii) neighbours are, given their resources and interests,
motivated to invest in local relationships; (iii) neighbours have few
relations outside of the neighbourhood, and (iv) neighbours are
mutually interdependent. Data from the Survey of Social Networks of
the Dutch on 1,007 respondents in 168 neighbourhoods are used.
Results show that there is a sizeable amount of community in Dutch
neighbourhoods and that all the four conditions contribute to the
explanation, while interdependencies among neighbours have the
strongest impact on the creation of community.
