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Author Simonsen, William

Title Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation
Published Boulder : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (200 pages)
Series Urban Policy Challenges
Urban policy challenges
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Theoretical and Historical Context of Public Participation; Representation Versus Participation; Politics Versus Administration; Bureaucracies and Expertise Versus Citizen Access; Tensions; Public Hearings; Advisory Committees; Grassroots Versus Government-Sponsored Participation; Citizen Agencies; Discussion; 2 Contemporary Techniques for Citizen Involvement; Citizen Surveys and Forums; Citizen Juries and Panels; Two National Projects on the Federal Budget Deficit
Organizations with Ongoing Efforts in Citizen ParticipationPreferences Under a Budget Constraint; Gauging the Results of Citizen Participation Efforts; Lessons from Participation Projects; Discussion; 3 How Do Citizens Balance the Budget?; Eugene, Oregon, and Eugene Decisions; The Design of the Surveys; Analysis of the Survey Results; Discussion; 4 How Fiscal Information and Service Use Influence Citizen Preferences; Notions of Citizenship and Responses to Fiscal Information; Research on Effects of Fiscal Information and Service Use; Methodology; Findings-Information Effects
Findings-Service UseDiscussion; 5 Conclusions: Lessons for Governments; Where We Have Been; Reflections on Citizen Participation Efforts; Call for Research; Last Words; Appendices; Appendix A: BOB (Build Your Own Budget) Survey; Appendix B: Ivory Survey; Appendix C: Blue Survey; Appendix D: OLS Regression Coefficients-Services; Appendix E: OLS Regression Coefficients-Taxes; Appendix F: Logistic Regression Coefficients-Services; Appendix G: Logistic Regression Coefficients-Taxes; References; Index
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Subject USPolitics
Politics and government
Budget -- United States -- Citizen participation
Government spending policy -- United States -- Citizen participation
Political participation -- United States
Politics and government
Budget -- Citizen participation
Government spending policy -- Citizen participation
Political participation
Budget -- Participation des citoyens -- États-Unis.
Politique des dépenses publiques -- Participation des citoyens -- États-Unis.
Participation politique -- États-Unis.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Robbins, Mark D
ISBN 9780429970184
0429970188
9780429981265
0429981260