Public policy in the community / Marilyn Taylor
- Bib ID:
- 2381591
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Taylor, Marilyn, 1946-
- Description:
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
- xvi, 263 p. ; 22 cm.
- Series:
- Public policy and politics.
- Summary:
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"Public Policy in the Community explores the way that community and the ideas associated with it - social capital, civil society, mutuality, networks - have been used in policy and public debate since the 1960s. It asks how far existing approaches to empowerment and participation have worked, drawing on the author's own extensive experience and a wide range of examples from different parts of the world."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Policy Context
- 3. Ideas of Community
- 4. Contradictions of Community
- 5. Prescribing Community to the Poor
- 6. Power and Empowerment
- 7. Power in the Policy Process
- 8. Experiencing Empowerment
- 9. Reclaiming Community
- 10. Reclaiming Power
- 11. The Challenge for Communities
- 12. The Institutional Challenge
- 13. Community Empowerment: Myth or Reality?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2003
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