Encouraging community dialog : approach, promise, and tensions
By: HELLING, Amy
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Contributor(s): Thomas, John Clayton.
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ArticlePublisher: New York : Marcel Dekker, 2001International Journal of Public Administration- IJPA 24, 7-8, p. 749-770Abstract: There has been growing interest in recent years in what might be termed "community dialogs", or techniques for engaging broad-based discussions of issues within particular communities. The purpose of this article is to survey and assess this movement based on prior research. We first contraist traditional citizen involement in public planning as a method of pursing community dialogs with the newer, collaborative public decision making approaches. The article then examines the benefits of community dialogs and the tensions which arise from their pursuit. We conclude by offering as assesment of how we might think about these techniques in the future
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There has been growing interest in recent years in what might be termed "community dialogs", or techniques for engaging broad-based discussions of issues within particular communities. The purpose of this article is to survey and assess this movement based on prior research. We first contraist traditional citizen involement in public planning as a method of pursing community dialogs with the newer, collaborative public decision making approaches. The article then examines the benefits of community dialogs and the tensions which arise from their pursuit. We conclude by offering as assesment of how we might think about these techniques in the future
Volume 24
Numbers 7-8
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