Empowered Participation : Reinventing Urban Democracy.
Title:
Empowered Participation : Reinventing Urban Democracy.
Author:
Fung, Archon.
ISBN:
9781400835638
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Democracy as a Reform Strategy -- 1.1. Empowered Participation as an Administrative Reform Strategy -- 1.2. Accountable Autonomy: An Institutional Design for Empowered Participation -- 1.3. Paths More Traveled: Markets and Public Hierarchies -- 1.4. Origins: Civic Engagement, Pragmatism, and Deliberative Democracy -- 1.5. Mechanisms of Effectiveness -- 1.6. Sources of Fairness -- 1.7. Exploring Accountable Autonomy, in Theory and Practice -- 2. Down to the Neighborhoods -- 2.1. Perils of Patronage: School Governance in the Machine Era -- 2.2. Progressive Reform and Bureaucratic Administration, 1947-1980 -- 2.3. Legitimation Crisis to Accountable Autonomy, 1980-1988 -- 2.4. Progressive Reformers and Machine Policing -- 2.5. Building the Modern Police Bureaucracy in Chicago -- 2.6. Legitimation Crisis in Policing -- 2.7. Toward Community-Centered Policing -- 2.8. Administration as Pragmatic and Participatory Neighborhood Deliberation -- 2.9. Deliberative Problem-Solving in Chicago LCSs -- 2.10. Communities of Inquiry in Chicago Policing -- 2.11. Conclusion -- 3. Building Capacity and Accountability -- 3.1. Dilemmas of Devolution -- 3.2. Training: Schools of Democracy in the Chicago Reforms -- 3.3. Mobilization -- 3.4. Cognitive Templates for Deliberative Governance and Problem-Solving -- 3.5. Bottom-Up, Top-Down Accountability -- 3.6. Enhancing Institutional Background Conditions for Problem-Solving -- 3.7. Networking Inquiry -- 3.8. Redistribution to the Least Capable -- 3.9. Conflicts between Community and the Local State -- 4. Challenges to Participation -- 4.1. Three Stages of Empirical Investigation -- 4.2. The Strong Rational-Choice Perspective -- 4.3. Strong Egalitarianism -- 4.4. Social Capital -- 4.5. Unity and the Politics of Difference.
4.6. Expertise -- 5. Deliberation and Poverty -- 5.1. Deliberation in Contexts of Poverty and Social Conflict -- 5.2. Initial Conditions: Six Cases in Three Neighborhoods -- 5.3. Southtown Elementary Becomes Harambee Academy -- 5.4. Central Beat: Nonsystematic Problem-Solving -- 5.5. Traxton School: Wealth and Embedded Agreement -- 5.6. Poverty and the Character of Pragmatic Deliberation -- 6. Deliberation in Social Conflict -- 6.1. Bridges across Race and Class in Traxton Beat -- 6.2. Translation and Trust in Southtown Beat -- 6.3. The Discipline of Self-Reflection: Central Elementary under Probation -- 6.4. Beyond Decentralization: Structured Deliberation and Intervention -- 7. The Chicago Experience and Beyond -- 7.1. Lessons from the Street -- 7.2. System-wide Democratic and Administrative Accomplishments -- 7.3. Incomplete Politics and Institutional Instability -- 7.4. Bringing Practice Back into Participatory and Deliberative Democratic Theory -- 7.5. Beyond Chicago -- 7.6. The Promise of Participatory-Deliberative Democracy -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Every month in every neighborhood in Chicago, residents, teachers, school principals, and police officers gather to deliberate about how to improve their schools and make their streets safer. Residents of poor neighborhoods participate as much or more as those from wealthy ones. All voices are heard. Since the meetings began more than a dozen years ago, they have led not only to safer streets but also to surprising improvements in the city's schools. Chicago's police department and school system have become democratic urban institutions unlike any others in America. Empowered Participation is the compelling chronicle of this unprecedented transformation. It is the first comprehensive empirical analysis of the ways in which participatory democracy can be used to effect social change. Using city-wide data and six neighborhood case studies, the 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. The author's conclusion: Properly designed and implemented institutions of participatory democratic governance can spark citizen involvement that in turn generates innovative problem-solving and public action. Their participation makes organizations more fair and effective. Though the book focuses on Chicago's municipal agencies, its lessons are applicable to many American cities. Its findings will prove useful not only in the fields of education and law enforcement, but also to sectors as diverse as environmental regulation, social service provision, and workforce development.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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