"Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people ore organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an o…
"Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people ore organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an o…
Participatory Development (PDev) has been embraced by Third World governments and international organizations such as the World Bank as a means to reduce poverty and empower disadvantaged communities. The emphasis on creating partnerships and using participatory and people-centr…
Community Organizing provides new insight into an important national challenge--how to stimulate the formation of genuinely community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighborhoods that have not spawned these efforts spontaneously. Since Robert Putnam's identi…
Providing new insight into an important community development challenge, this text looks at how to stimulate the formation of community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighbourhoods.
Participation is a popular approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in both developing and developed countries. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by those int…
"Participation: From Tyranny to Transformation? is the first comprehensive attempt to evaluate the state of participatory approaches in the aftermath of the 'Tyranny' critique. It captures the recent convergence between participatory development and participatory governance, and…
Participation is a popular approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in both developing and developed countries. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by those int…
Taking the rational individual as its primary social unit, this bookdevelops a new approach to the theory of social relations.
Taking the rational individual as its primary social unit, this book develops a new approach to the theory of social relations.
