Nickels / Rivera Community Development and Public Administration Theory

Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-39653-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines. Moreover, the concept of community development has been historically abstracted, not only in the way the concept has been conceptualized in academic studies, but also by the way in which practitioners use the term in the vernacular. Departing from traditional definitions of community development, this volume applies the New Public Service (NPS) perspective of Public Administration to community development to illustrate how public administrators and public managers can engage in community development planning and implementation that results in more equitable and sustainable long-term outcomes.

This book will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in public administration/management, public administration theory, community development, economic development, urban sociology, urban politics, and urban planning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nickels, Ashley E.

Rivera, Jason D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Community Comes First in Community Development
[Carolyn T. Adams]
Introduction: Democratizing Community Development Policy & Administration
[Jason D. Rivera and Ashley E. Nickels]

Part 1: Values and the Policy Environment

1. Defining and Aligning Community Development and Public Administration: Using Administrative Practices and Design to Better Communities
[William Hatcher]

2. Calling for Community Control: Local Organizing and Implications for Community Development Policy
[Amanda D. Clark and Ashley E. Nickels]

3. Fiscal Emergency Management in Michigan: A Misguided Policy Initiative
[David Fasenfest]

4. American Dream, Democratic Nightmare: Refocusing Governmental Approaches to Housing Policy
[Prentiss A. Dantzler]
Part 2: Serving Rather Than Steering

5. Improving the Citizen Participatory Process in Community Economic Development
[Eric Stokan and Erica Raleigh]

6. Representative Bureaucracy and Community Development
[Anthony D. Molina]

7. The Impact of Microfinance Programs on Political Participation: A Study of Rural Indian Women
[Suparna Soni and Jason D. Rivera]

8. Advocating Against the Grain: Nonprofit Advocacy and Human Services
[Zachary D. Wood]

9. Overcoming the Tokenization of People with Disabilities in Community Development
[Erica McFadden and Krystal Downie]
Part 3: Thinking Strategically, Acting Democratically

10. Cross Sector Community Partnerships and the Growing Importance of High Capacity Nonprofits in Urban Governance: A Case Study of Camden, New Jersey
[Kirk A. Leach]

11. Civic Engagement, Community Development, and the role of CSOs and Citizenship: A Case Study of The Gambia
[Aminata A. Sillah and Atta A. Ceesay]

12. Community Development through Participatory, Engaged, and Critical Analysis
[Kelly L. Patterson, Molly Ranahan, Robert Mark Silverman, and Thomas H. Nochajski]

13. Economic Development as if Low Income Communities Mattered

[Ted Howard and Michelle Camou]

Über Autor(innen)

Ashley E. Nickels is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Kent State University. Nickels is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose work focuses on urban politics and policy, community-based organizations and organizing, and local democracy. Nickels’ current research investigates the politics of municipal takeovers, focusing on policy design, implementation, and feedback. She is co-editor of Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology (Belt) and co-editor of Feminist Pedagogy, Practice, and Activism (Routledge).

Jason D. Rivera is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science (division of Public Administration) at SUNY Buffalo State. His research focuses on the institutional structures that have historically perpetuated social vulnerability within minority and low-income communities. He is also interested in social vulnerability to natural and manmade disasters with an emphasis on minority experiences. Prior to his arrival at SUNY Buffalo State, Rivera has taught Public Administration and Political Science at Rowan University and Rutgers University-Camden.