Public Policy in the Community
- Author
- Taylor, Marilyn
- Published
- Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2011.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (375 pages).
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- Series
- Contents
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The Changing Fortunes of 'Community'; Community lost; Community regained; Can community deliver?; 3 Community in Policy and Practice; Community failure; System failure; Structural and economic failure; Government failure; Area-based policies; Summary; 4 Ideas of Community; Community; Communitarianism; Social capital; Civil society; Mutuality; Networks; Trust and informality; Summary; 5 Contradictions of Community; Community and communitarianism; Social capital; Civil society., Mutuality, informality and networksDiscussion; 6 Prescribing Community to the Poor; Poverty and social exclusion; Prescribing community to the poor; Discussion; 7 Power and Empowerment; Understanding power; The potential for empowerment; Routes to empowerment; Summary; 8 Power in the Policy Process; Who makes policy?; How is policy made?; From government to governance; The interactive state; Frameworks for empowerment; Discussion; 9 Experiencing Empowerment; Window dressing or window of opportunity?; The rules of the game; Should we be playing this game at all?; Discussion., 10 Reclaiming CommunityReleasing community power; Designing in community; Summary; 11 Reclaiming Power; Communities as producers and co-producers; Communities as policymakers; Discussion; 12 The Challenge for Communities; Reconciling cohesion and diversity; Reconciling leadership, participation and representation; Scaling up; Inside or outside?; Summary; 13 The Institutional Challenge; Changing people; Changing cultures; Changing structures; Bringing the state back in?; Discussion; 14 Community Empowerment: Myth or Reality?; A global world; Can community deliver?, and Pessimist, optimist or pragmatist?Making pragmatism work; References; Author Index; Subject Index.
- Summary
- The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and increase civic involvement, believe active communities are essential for tackling a range of social, economic and political challenges, such as crime, sustainable development and the provision of care. Public Policy in the Community examines the way that community and the ideas associated with it - civil society, social capital, mutuality, networks - have been understood and applied from the 1960s to the present day. Marilyn Taylor examines the issue.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780230344099
0230344097 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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