Creating Sustainable Community Programs (Hardcover)

Mark R. Daniels

ISBN 10: 0275967743 / ISBN 13: 9780275967741

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport, 2001

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Hardcover. Public opinion polls consistently reveal the lack of confidence, disillusionment, and mistrust that citizens feel toward government. Daniels and his contributors believe that the relationship between citizens and their governments can be changed by facilitating greater citizen collaboration with government, particularly through local sustainable programs. As the case studies show, often sustainable community programs are created through grassroots movements that are initiated and managed by citizens themselves, bringing them in contact with their local elected and appointed officials. Unlike traditional programs that are administered by local officials on behalf of their citizens, once sustainable community programs are created, citizens administer their own programs in collaboration with local officials.The case studies look at a variety of sustainable programs, primarily in the United States, that help to deal with issues such as recycling, transportation, microcredit, site redevelopment, pollution, health care, and hunger. Creating Sustainable Community Programs is the first book on sustainable programs that is intended for an audience of public administration scholars, researchers, and students as well as practitioners who are searching for ways to change the relationship between citizens and their governments. Provides case studies of tested sustainable community programmes and implementation strategies. Such programmes are often created through "grassroots" movements that are initiated by citizens themselves, and later administered by citizens and local officials. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Sustainable Community Programs (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275967743
• ISBN 13: 9780275967741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Public opinion polls consistently reveal the lack of confidence, disillusionment, and mistrust that citizens feel toward government. Daniels and his contributors believe that the relationship between citizens and their governments can be changed by facilitating greater citizen collaboration with government, particularly through local sustainable programs. As the case studies show, often sustainable community programs are created through grassroots movements that are initiated and managed by citizens themselves, bringing them in contact with their local elected and appointed officials. Unlike traditional programs that are administered by local officials on behalf of their citizens, once sustainable community programs are created, citizens administer their own programs in collaboration with local officials.

The case studies look at a variety of sustainable programs, primarily in the United States, that help to deal with issues such as recycling, transportation, microcredit, site redevelopment, pollution, health care, and hunger. Creating Sustainable Community Programs is the first book on sustainable programs that is intended for an audience of public administration scholars, researchers, and students as well as practitioners who are searching for ways to change the relationship between citizens and their governments.

About the Author

MARK R. DANIELS is an Associate Professor of Government and Public Affairs and Director of the Graduate Program in Public Administration at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania./e Among Professor Daniels' earlier publications are Terminating Public Programs: An American Political Paradox and Medicaid Reform and the American States: Cases Studies on the Politics of Managed Care (Auburn House, 1998).