Public policy in the community

""Community" continues to attract the attention of policy makers and scholars. Taking account of changes since the publication of the first edition, this new edition explores the challenges of empowering communities and assesses the lessons for policy and practice of community-based a...

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1. Verfasser: Taylor, Marilyn (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Houndmills Palgrave Macmillan 2011
Ausgabe:2. ed., rev. and updated
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Zusammenfassung:""Community" continues to attract the attention of policy makers and scholars. Taking account of changes since the publication of the first edition, this new edition explores the challenges of empowering communities and assesses the lessons for policy and practice of community-based approaches to social disadvantage and exclusion"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Changing Fortunes of Community -- Community in Policy and Practice -- Ideas of Community -- Contradictions of Community -- Prescribing Community to the Poor -- Power and Empowerment -- Power in the Policy Process -- Experiencing Empowerment -- Reclaiming Community -- Reclaiming Power -- The Challenge for Communities -- The Institutional Challenge -- Community Empowerment: Myth or Reality?
Beschreibung:XV, 358 S.
Ill.
22 cm
ISBN:9780230242654
978-0-230-24265-4
0230242650
0-230-24265-0