Making Democracy Work
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Making Democracy Work
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Author : Robert D. Putnam
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1994-05-27
Making Democracy Work written by Robert D. Putnam and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-27 with Political Science categories.
"A classic."—New York Times "Seminal, epochal, path-breaking . . . a Democracy in America for our times."—The Nation From the bestselling author of Bowling Alone, a landmark account of the secret of successful democracies Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970, when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and healthcare, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity. The result is a landmark book filled with crucial insights about how to make democracy work.
Making Democracy Work
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Author : National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Making Democracy Work written by National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Community organization categories.
Making Social Capital Work
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Author : Carles Boix
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Making Social Capital Work written by Carles Boix and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Democracy categories.
Making Democracy Work Better
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Author : Richard A. Couto
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2003-07-11
Making Democracy Work Better written by Richard A. Couto and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-11 with Political Science categories.
The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details the “savage side” of market capitalism in Appalachia and explains the social, political, and economic roles that mediating structures play in mitigating it. Profiling the work of twenty-three such mediating structures — community-based organizations that battled to provide social safety nets, fight environmental assaults, and upgrade the education and job skills of Appalachian residents — Richard Couto distills the practical lessons to be found in their successes and shortcomings. Couto argues that a broader set of democratic dimensions be used in taking the measure of civil society and public policy in the twenty-first century. He shows that mediating structures promote the democratic prospect of reduced inequality and increased communal bonds when they provide and advocate for new forms and increased amounts of social capital — the public goods and moral resources that we invest in one another as members of a community.
Making Democracy Work
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Author : Robert D. Putnam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Making Democracy Work written by Robert D. Putnam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Political Science categories.
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
Making Democracy Work For Pro Poor Development
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Author : Manmohan Singh
language : en
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Release Date : 2003
Making Democracy Work For Pro Poor Development written by Manmohan Singh and has been published by Commonwealth Secretariat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
This report focuses on how to make democracy work for pro-poor development and on development policies that in themselves uphold and promote democratic values. It argues that development and democracy are not only goals in their own right, but must also be mutually reinforcing. It says that governments, the private sector, civil society and the international community all have a vital role to play in delivering development and democracy, and calls for responsibility, partnership and concrete actions.The report contains recommendations for action at both national and international levels. It is of interest to policy-makers, multilateral and bilateral agencies, the private sector, civil society organisations and all those committed to development, democracy and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
The Media
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Author : Christel Bussiek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Media written by Christel Bussiek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Freedom of the press categories.
Making Democracy Work
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Author : Howard Coonley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
Making Democracy Work written by Howard Coonley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with categories.
Challenging The Growth Machine
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Author : Barbara Ferman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Challenging The Growth Machine written by Barbara Ferman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Economic development and urban growth are the contested grounds of urban politics. Business elites and politicians tend to forge "pro-growth" coalitions centered around downtown development while progressive and neighborhood activists counter with a more balanced approach that features a strong neighborhood component. Urban politics is often shaped by this conflict, which has intellectual as well as practical dimensions. In some cities, neighborhood interests have triumphed; in others, the pro-growth agenda has prevailed. In this illuminating comparative study, Barbara Ferman demonstrates why neighborhood challenges to pro-growth politics were much more successful in Pittsburgh than they were in Chicago. Operating largely in the civic arena, Pittsburgh's neighborhood groups encountered a political culture and institutional structure conducive to empowering neighborhood progressivism in housing and economic development policymaking. In contrast, the pro-growth agenda in Chicago was challenged in the electoral arena, which was dominated by machine, ward-based politicians who regarded any independent neighborhood organizing as a threat. Consequently, neighborhood demands for policymaking input were usually thwarted. Besides revealing why the development policies of two important American cities diverged, Ferman's unique comparative approach to this issue significantly expands the scope of urban analysis. Among other things, it provides the first serious study to incorporate the civic sector-neighborhood politics-as an important component of urban regimes. Ferman also emphasizes institutional and cultural factors-often ignored or relegated to residual roles in other studies-and expounds on their influence in shaping local politics and policy. To add an analytical and normative dimension to urban analysis, she focuses on the "non-elite" actors, not just the economic and political elites who compose governing coalitions. Ultimately, Ferman takes a more holistic and balanced view of large cities than is typical for urban studies as she argues that neighborhoods are an important, integral part of what cities are and can be. For that reason especially, her work will have a profound impact upon our understanding of urban politics.
Why Politics Matters Making Democracy Work
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Author : Gerry Stoker
language : en
Publisher:
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Why Politics Matters Making Democracy Work written by Gerry Stoker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Electronic books categories.
"Profound social changes have made governance and political leadership more challenging than ever. The result is that politics in the democratic world faces a crisis in the 21st century. The revised edition of this highly successful text reassesses the gap between citizen expectation and the realities of government in light of new developments."--