State of Citizen Participation in America

Cover -- Series Page -- The State of Citizen Participation in America -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Civic Participation in America -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Looking Back on the Founding -- Part II: Citizen Participation and Policy -- Chapter 3: Encouraging Citizenship in U.S. Presidential Administrations -- Chapter 4: The Usability of Government Information -- Part III: Citizen Participation: Trends and Assessments -- Chapter 5: Citizen Participation at the Local Level -- Chapter 6: Citizen Engagement in Local Environmental Policy -- Chapter 7: Applying Technology to Enhance Citizen Engagement With City and County Government -- Chapter 8: Engaging Hispanics in Governance -- Chapter 9: Online Citizen Participation -- Chapter 10: Voluntary Associations, Nonprofit Organizations, and Civic Engagement -- Part IV: Citizen Participation: Innovative Cases -- Chapter 11: Citizen Deliberation on Health Care Costs -- Chapter 12: The Benson-Ames Alliance -- Chapter 13: Deliberative Polling -- Chapter 14: Citizen Participation and Performance -- Chapter 15: An Analysis of Collaborative Governance Models in the Context of Shared Services -- Part V: Research Reflections -- Chapter 16: Researching Participation Through Interpretive Phenomenology -- Chapter 17: Social Psychological Barriers to Communicative Rationality -- Part VI: Conclusion -- Chapter 18: Theory Building and Testing in Citizen Participation Research -- About the Contributors -- Index.