Empowered Participation by Archon Fung

Empowered Participation by Archon Fung

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An empirical analysis of the ways in which participatory democracy can be used to effect social change. This book explores how determined Chicago residents, police officers, teachers, and community groups worked to banish crime and transform a failing city school system into a model for educational reform.

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Empowered Participation by Archon Fung

An empirical analysis of the ways in which participatory democracy can be used to effect social change. This book explores how determined Chicago residents, police officers, teachers, and community groups worked to banish crime and transform a failing city school system into a model for educational reform.
Theoretically compelling, analytically insightful, empirically careful.. It is well-written, clean, (almost) jargon-free and compelling. -- Mark Carl Rom Democracy & Society A judicious, thorough, and multifaceted study of important questions in democratic theory. It is well worth reading. -- William Nelson Ethics
Archon Fung is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author, with Erik Olin Wright, of "Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance".
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ISBN 13 9780691115351
ISBN 10 0691115354
Title Empowered Participation
Author Archon Fung
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Year published 2004-03-21
Number of pages 296
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