Much of the literature on citizen participation in the budget process links the council-manager form of government with higher levels of citizen participation, assuming the council-manager form represents professional administration. This is contradictory to the reality that different forms of...

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...