Varieties of civic innovation : deliberative, collaborative, network, and narrative approaches /
"In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation. They examine lived reality and theoretical underpinning, promise and accomplishment, but also the pitfalls and cap...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2014]
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| Summary: | "In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation. They examine lived reality and theoretical underpinning, promise and accomplishment, but also the pitfalls and capacity-building challenges that face virtually all attempts to bring citizen voice, knowledge, and skill to the center of public problem solving. Their analyses are both hopeful and hard-headed and are guided by commitments to help understand appropriate fit and realistic sustainability. Cases include face-to-face deliberation, online networking and citizen journalism, policy forums, and community and stakeholder planning sessions across local, state and federal contexts. Policy issues run a broad gamut from community and regional economic development and environmental sustainability to minority rights and gay marriage"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826520012 |