Public policy in the community

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Title:

ISBN:

9780230242654

Edition:

2nd ed., rev. and updated.

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description:

xv, 358 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series:

Public policy and politics

Public policy and politics.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Changing Fortunes of Community -- Community in Policy and Practice -- Ideas of Community -- Contradictions of Community -- Prescribing Community to the Poor -- Power and Empowerment -- Power in the Policy Process -- Experiencing Empowerment -- Reclaiming Community -- Reclaiming Power -- The Challenge for Communities -- The Institutional Challenge -- Community Empowerment: Myth or Reality?.

Subject Term:

Community power.

Political participation.

Political sociology.

Political science / Public Policy / Social Policy

Political science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development

Political science / Public Policy / General

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Summary

The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and increase civic involvement, believe active communities are essential for tackling a range of social, economic and political challenges, such as crime, sustainable development and the provision of care.

Public Policy in the Community examines the way that community and the ideas associated with it - civil society, social capital, mutuality, networks - have been understood and applied from the 1960s to the present day. Marilyn Taylor examines the issues involved in putting the community at the heart of policy making, and considers the political and social implications of such a practice. Drawing on a wide range of relevant examples from around the world, the book considers the success of existing approaches and the prospects for further developments. Thoroughly updated to reflect advances in research and practice, the new edition of this important text gives a state-of-the-art assessment of the place of community in public policy.