Citizen governance : leading American communities into the 21st century / Richard C. Box.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-175) and index.

Introduction: A Return to Original Values -- The Three Returns to Values of the Past -- Local Control -- Small and Responsive Government -- The Professional as Adviser, Not Controller -- The Downslope of the Wave of Reform -- The Principles of Community Governance -- The "Is" and the "Ought" -- Design of the Book -- The Nature of Community Governance -- Describing the Institution of Local Governance -- The Separate Path of Local Government -- The Era of Elite Control -- The Era of Democracy -- The Era of Professionalism -- The Era of Citizen Governance -- The Institutional Legacy -- Power in the Community -- The Debate About Community Leadership -- City Limits -- The Growth Machine -- Four Cities -- Varying Responses to Community Politics: A Case Study -- Community Policy Orientations -- Citizens -- Models of American Citizenship -- Critical Theory -- Governance by Citizens -- Barriers to Citizen Governance -- The Individual Knowledge Limit -- Creating Citizen Governance -- Representatives -- The Trustee and the Delegate -- The Nature of Community Representation -- The Burden of Representation -- Routine and Community Interest Policy -- The Coordinating Council -- Practitioners -- The Context of Public Service -- Evolution of the Public Service Practitioner -- The Public Service Role -- The Goals of Practitioners -- Personal Motivations -- Value-Free Neutrality -- Legitimacy -- Development Versus Sustainability -- Social Equity -- Facilitating Citizen Discourse -- Three Practitioner Role Types.

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Drawing on fundamental ideas about the relationship of citizens to the public sphere, Richard C Box presents a model of `citizen governance'. Recognizing the challenges in the community governance setting, he advocates rethinking the structure of local government and the roles of citizens, elected officials and public professionals in the twenty-first century. His model shifts a large part of the responsibility for local public policy from the professional and the elected official to the citizen. Citizens take part directly in creating and implementing policy, elected officials coordinate the.

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