Public Policy in the Community (Public Policy and Politics)

by EmeritusProfessorMarilynTaylor (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $51.47

  The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Marilyn Taylor examines the issues involved in putting the community at the heart of policy making, and considers the political and social implications of such a practice.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.28

  The community is seen by many as the solution to a range of challenges: social, political and economic exclusion and polarization, crime and moral decline, the caring crisis, and sustainable development. But communities are complex phenomena and ideas of community empowerment contain many tensions and contradictions. This text explores the challenges involved in empowering communities and assesses the lessons for policy and practice from the experience of some three decades of community-based approaches to social disadvantage and exclusion.