Varieties of civic innovation [Texte imprimé] : deliberative, collaborative, network, and narrative approaches / Jennifer Girouard, Carmen Sirianni, editors

"In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation. They examine lived reality and theoretical underpinning, promise and accomplishment, but also the pitfalls and capacity-building challenges that face virtually all attempts to bring citizen voice, knowledge, and skill to the center of public problem solving. Their analyses are both hopeful and hard-headed and are guided by commitments to help understand appropriate fit and realistic sustainability. Cases include face-to-face deliberation, online networking and citizen journalism, policy forums, and community and stakeholder planning sessions across local, state and federal contexts. Policy issues run a broad gamut from community and regional economic development and environmental sustainability to minority rights and gay marriage"-- Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: -- CONTENTS -- Jennifer Girouard and Carmen Sirianni, Introduction -- Elena Fagotto and Archon Fung, Embedding Public Deliberation in Community Governance -- Anne Taufen Wessells, Ways of Knowing the Los Angeles River Watershed: Getting from Engaged Participation to Inclusive Deliberation -- Jason Corburn, Civic Innovation, Deliberation, and Health Impact Assessment: Democratic Planning and Civic Engagement in San Francisco -- Daniel Kreiss and Laura Meadows, Intramovement Agenda Setting: Nationalizing North Carolina's Fight to Defeat an Anti-Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment -- Lewis A. Friedland, Civic Communication in a Networked Society: Seattle's Emergent Ecology -- Caroline W. Lee, Accounting for Diversity in Collaborative Governance: An Institutional Approach to Empowerment Reforms -- Robert M. Fishman, Networks and Narratives in the Making of Civic Practice: Lessons from Iberia -- Thamy Pogrebinschi, Turning Participation into Representation: Innovative Policy Making for Minority Groups in Brazil -- Carmen Sirianni, Bringing the State Back in through Collaborative Governance: Emergent Mission and Practice at the US Environmental Protection Agency -- Jane Mansbridge, A Systemic Approach to Civic Action