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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. Since the meetings began more than a dozen years ago, they have led not only to safer streets but also to surprising improvements in the city's schools. Chicago's police department and school system have become democratic urban institutions unlike any others in America.



Empowered Participation is the compelling chronicle of this unprecedented transformation. It is the first comprehensive empirical analysis of the ways in which participatory democracy can be used to effect social change. Using city-wide data and six neighborhood case studies, the book explores how determined Chicago residents, police officers, teachers, and community groups worked to banish crime and transform a failing city school system into a model for educational reform. The author's conclusion: Properly designed and implemented institutions of participatory democratic governance can spark citizen involvement that in turn generates innovative problem-solving and public action. Their participation makes organizations more fair and effective.


Though the book focuses on Chicago's municipal agencies, its lessons are applicable to many American cities. Its findings will prove useful not only in the fields of education and law enforcement, but also to sectors as diverse as environmental regulation, social service provision, and workforce development.


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"A wonderful book: theoretically compelling, analytically insightful, empirically careful. It is a highly-skilled merger of arguments in democratic theory and applications in real world situations. It is well-written, clean, (almost) jargon-free and compelling."--Mark Carl Rom, Democracy & Society

"A judicious, thorough, and multifaceted study of important questions in democratic theory. It is well worth reading."--William Nelson, Ethics

"[This] book masterfully dissects terms and rebuts claims of the unfeasibility or inadequacy of public participation in policy."--Richard A. Couto, Perspectives on Politics

"Empowered Participation provides some much-needed empirical endeavor to a field that is mostly theoretical. . . . [It is] an important work which anyone interested in community organization, civic engagement, community policing, and democratic theory should read."--Patrick J. Carr, American Journal of Sociology

"Archon Fung makes an indispensable contribution to deliberative democratic theory."--Michael Rabinder James, Political Theory

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Archon Fung is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author, with Erik Olin Wright, of "Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance"

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  • EditorePrinceton Univ Pr
  • Data di pubblicazione2004
  • ISBN 10 0691115354
  • ISBN 13 9780691115351
  • RilegaturaCopertina rigida
  • Numero di pagine296
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