Varieties of Civic Innovation: Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches

by Jennifer Girouard (Editor), Carmen Sirianni (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826503589
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date:	12/22/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Carmen Sirianni is the Morris Hillquit Professor at Brandeis University and Faculty Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His most recent book is Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance (Brookings 2009), and he is currently working on a two-volume study, Self-Governance in American Political Development.

Jennifer Girouard is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Brandeis University.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Embedding Public Deliberation in Community Governance

2. Ways of Knowing the Los Angeles River Watershed: Getting from Engaged Participation to Inclusive Deliberation

3. Civic Innovation, Deliberation, and Health Impact Assessment: Democratic Planning and Civic Engagement in San Francisco

4. Intramovement Agenda Setting: Nationalizing North Carolina’s Fight to Defeat an Anti-Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment

5. Civic Communication in a Networked Society: Seattle's Emergent Ecology

6. Accounting for Diversity in Collaborative Governance: An Institutional Approach to Empowerment Reforms

7. Networks and Narratives in the Making of Civic Practice: Lessons from Iberia

8. Turning Participation into Representation: Innovative Policy Making for Minority Groups in Brazil

9. Bringing the State Back In through Collaborative Governance: Emergent Mission and Practice at the US Environmental Protection Agency

10. A Systemic Approach to Civic Action

Contributors

Index