Strengthening Civic Engagement in Community Decision-Making [microform] / Betty S. King and Ron Hustedde
- Bib ID:
- 5683109
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- King, Betty S
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2001
- 12 p.
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Citizen engagement is important for preserving a prosperous democracy and keeping elected officials accountable to their constituents. New issues affecting rural citizens are causing communities to reframe and ask new planning questions. Two approaches to citizen engagement are asset mapping, in which communities focus on their strengths and resources instead of problems and deficiencies, and systems thinking, which considers how the interdependence of issues affects whole systems. Barriers to citizen involvement include a lack of trust in others, a lack of time, subtle racial and economic barriers, feelings that citizen input is not welcome or considered, and community leaders who believe that citizens don't understand community issues and complicate the decision-making process. Institutions that nurture rural civic engagement are the cooperative extension services and leadership programs sponsored by local chambers of commerce and other organizations. Recommendations for increasing citizen engagement include clarifying Cooperative Extension Service policy about the nature of leadership and civic engagement work and its significance in the broader mission of building citizen capacity; expanding diversity, not just in numbers or parity of participation by race or gender, but organizationally and ideologically; directing more leadership development efforts in the rural South toward those with limited incomes and diverse racial, ethnic, and ideological backgrounds; developing and strengthening urban-rural relationships; and continuing the role of academic institutions in building citizen engagement. (Contains 12 references.) (TD)
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- Availability: For full text: http://ext.msstate.edu/srdc/publications/millennium.htm.
- Sponsoring Agency: Economic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC.
- Sponsoring Agency: Kentucky Univ., Lexington. TVA Rural Studies Program.
- Sponsoring Agency: Farm Foundation, Chicago, IL.
- ERIC Note: Theme issue. Also sponsored by the 29 Southern land grant institutions.
- Rural South: Preparing for the Challenges of the 21st Century, n19 May 2001.
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