Empowered participation : reinventing urban democracy /
Every month in every neighborhood in Chicago, residents, teachers, school principals, and police officers gather to deliberate about how to improve their schools and make their streets safer. Residents of poor neighborhoods participate as much or more as those from wealthy ones. All voices are heard...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2004.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rp4r |
Table of Contents:
- Democracy as a reform strategy
- Down to the neighborhoods
- Building capacity and accountability
- Challenges to participation
- Deliberation and poverty
- Deliberation in social conflict
- The Chicago experience and beyond.