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This important book is a response to crises of public policy.
Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors
argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are
inadequate to cope with increasingly complex challenges, and
suggest co-production as a more democratic alternative. Drawing on
12 compelling international contributions from practitioners,
policy makers, activists and actively engaged academics, ideas of
power are used to explore how genuine democratic involvement in the
policy process from those outside the elites of politics can shape
society for the better. The authors present insights on why and how
to generate change in policy processes, arguing for increased
experimentation in policy design. The book will be a valuable
resource for researchers and students in public policy, public
administration, sociology and politics.
Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as
research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community
organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable,
creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base.
Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders
and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to 'account
for' collaborative research, or to help collaborators in
challenging their assumptions about the quality of this work. This
book, part of the Connected Communities series, highlights the
benefits of universities collaborating with outside bodies on
research and addresses the key challenge of articulating the value
of collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social
sciences. Edited by two well respected academics, it includes
voices and perspectives from researchers and practitioners in a
wide range of disciplines. Together, they explore tensions in the
evaluation and assessment of research in general, and the debates
generated by collaborative research between universities and
communities to enable greater understanding of collaborative
research, and to provide a much-needed account of key theorists in
the field of interdisciplinary collaborative research.
This important book is a response to crises of public policy.
Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors
argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are
inadequate to cope with increasingly complex challenges, and
suggest co-production as a more democratic alternative. Drawing on
12 compelling international contributions from practitioners,
policy makers, activists and actively engaged academics, ideas of
power are used to explore how genuine democratic involvement in the
policy process from those outside the elites of politics can shape
society for the better. The authors present insights on why and how
to generate change in policy processes, arguing for increased
experimentation in policy design. The book will be a valuable
resource for researchers and students in public policy, public
administration, sociology and politics.
Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as
research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community
organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable,
creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base.
Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders
and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to 'account
for' collaborative research, or to help collaborators in
challenging their assumptions about the quality of this work. This
book, part of the Connected Communities series, highlights the
benefits of universities collaborating with outside bodies on
research and addresses the key challenge of articulating the value
of collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social
sciences. Edited by two well respected academics, it includes
voices and perspectives from researchers and practitioners in a
wide range of disciplines. Together, they explore tensions in the
evaluation and assessment of research in general, and the debates
generated by collaborative research between universities and
communities to enable greater understanding of collaborative
research, and to provide a much-needed account of key theorists in
the field of interdisciplinary collaborative research.
The relationship between citizens and local decision makers is a
long standing policy pre-occupation and has often been the subject
of debate by politicians across parties. Recent governments have
sought to empower, activate and give responsibility to some
citizens, while other groups have been abandoned or ignored.
Drawing on extensive up-to-date empirical work by leading
researchers in the field, "Changing local governance, changing
citizens" aims to explain what debates about local governance mean
for local people. Questions addressed include: what new demands are
being made on citizens and why? Which citizens are affected and how
have they responded? What difference do changing forms of local
governance make to people's lives? The book explores governance and
citizenship in relation to multiculturalism, economic migration,
community cohesion, housing markets, neighbourhoods, faith
organisations, behaviour change and e-democracy in order to
establish a differentiated, contemporary view of the ways that
citizens are constituted at the local level today. "Changing local
governance, changing citizens" provides a pertinent and robustly
empirical contribution to current debates amongst policy makers,
academics, practitioners and local communities about how to respond
to this changing policy framework. It will be of interest to
post-graduate students and academic researchers in politics, public
and social policy, sociology, local government and urban studies,
as well as policy makers and practitioners.
The relationship between citizens and local decision makers is a
long standing policy pre-occupation and has often been the subject
of debate by politicians across parties. Recent governments have
sought to empower, activate and give responsibility to some
citizens, while other groups have been abandoned or ignored.
Drawing on extensive up-to-date empirical work by leading
researchers in the field, "Changing Local Governance, Changing
Citizens" aims to explain what debates about local governance mean
for local people. Questions addressed include: What new demands are
being made on citizens and why? Which citizens are affected and how
have they responded? What difference do changing forms of local
governance make to people's lives? The book explores governance and
citizenship in relation to multiculturalism, economic migration,
community cohesion, housing markets, neighborhoods, faith
organisations, behaviour change and e-democracy in order to
establish a differentiated, contemporary view of the ways that
citizens are constituted at the local level today. "Changing Local
Governance, Changing Citizens" provides a pertinent and robustly
empirical contribution to current debates amongst policy makers,
academics, practitioners and local communities about how to respond
to this changing policy framework. It will be of interest to
post-graduate students and academic researchers in politics, public
and social policy, sociology, local government and urban studies,
as well as policy makers and practitioners.
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