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Community Power Structure
Author | : Floyd Hunter |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781469616940 |
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In this study of busy, complex Regional City -- and it is a real city -- the author has analyzed the power structure from top to bottom. He has searched out the men of power and, under fictitious names, has described them as they initiate policies in their offices, their homes, their clubs. They form a small, stable group at the top of the social structure. Their decision-making activities are not known to the public, but they are responsible for whatever is done, or not done, in their community. Beneath this top policy group is a clearly marked social stratification, through which decisions sift down to the substructures chosen to put them into effect. The dynamic relations within the power structure are made clear in charts, but the real interest lies in the author's report of what people themselves say. The African American community is also studied, with its own power structure and its own complicated relations with the large community. The method of study is fully described in an Appendix. The book should be of particular value to sociologists, political scientists, city-planning executives, Community Council members, social workers, teachers, and research workers in related fields. As a vigorous and readable presentation of facts, it should appeal to the reader who would like to know how his/her own community is run. Community Power Structure is not an expose. It is a description and discussion of a social phenomenon as it occured. It is based on sound field research, including personal observation and interviews by the author.
The Study of Community Power
Author | : Willis D. Hawley,James H. Svara |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015004865583 |
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Community Power and Empowerment
Author | : Brian D. Christens |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-01-16 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780190671761 |
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Many people want to help bring about changes in their neighborhoods, workplaces, and communities. Leaders and scholars of change efforts are likewise eager for insights into what makes some organizations and coalitions capable of building and exercising power. Why are some groups successful in making changes in policies and systems and in sustaining their momentum over time, while others struggle or never really get off the ground? With Community Power and Empowerment, Brian D. Christens brings the most comprehensive analysis of empowerment theory yet conducted to bear on these questions, taking aim at many of the longstanding weaknesses and ambiguities of empowerment theory, research, and practice. For example, one major hindrance is that most notions of empowerment have not been coherently connected with community power. In addition, research has emphasized psychological aspects of empowerment over organizational processes, and has neglected community empowerment processes to an even greater extent. By linking empowerment and community power, Christens constructs a holistic framework for assessing and comparing community-driven change efforts. This book offers new guidance for inquiries into outcomes and impacts of empowerment processes on health and well-being, providing a resource for researchers, organizational leaders, practitioners, and anyone interested in collective action for change.
Critical Pluralism Democratic Performance and Community Power
Author | : Paul Schumaker |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2021-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780700631681 |
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A central question in political science is who governs and how. Typically political scientists attempt to answer this question by relying upon either empirical analysis, which explains existing political practices, or normative analysis, which prescribes ideal political practices. Political scientist Paul Schumaker rejects this distinction between empirical and normative theory. Instead, he weds the two approaches to create the new analytical mode he calls critical pluralism. With it he can measure variances in government from pluralist/democratic ideals and still provide theoretical explanations of why the variances occurred. Schumaker uses critical pluralism to describe, explain, and evaluate variations in three key measures of democratic performance: responsible representation, complex equality, and principle-policy congruence. To test his framework and methodology he analyzes 29 community issues that arose in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1977 and 1987. The results of his study—one of the most comprehensive databases ever in the study of community politics—will be of interest to those who study community power. The conceptual framework itself and methodology used in assessing democratic performance will have a lasting impact on the way community government is studied.
Movers and Shakers
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Author | : Philip J. Trounstine,Terry Christensen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Community leadership |
ISBN | : 0312549628 |
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Community Power and Political Theory
Author | : Nelson W. Polsby |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Community power |
ISBN | : UOM:39015001799728 |
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Community Power and Grassroots Democracy
Author | : Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso |
Publsiher | : International Development Research Centre Books |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105019810618 |
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The collected essays in this book provide a comparative examination of the process of grassroots mobilization and the development of community-based forms of popular democracy in Central and South America. The first part contains studies from individual countries on organizations ranging from those supported by governments and integrated into the country's political structure to groups that were organized against the existing political system. The organizations studied included those focusing on a particular concern, such as housing, and those with wide responsibility for community affairs; but all were organizations based on common interests where people lived and, in some cases, where people worked. The second part offers theme studies on men, women and differential participation; problems and meanings associated with decentralization, especially in relation to devolution of power to the local level and the construction of popular alternatives; and the competing theoretical paradigms of new social movements and resource mobilization.
International Community Power Structures
Author | : Delbert Charles Miller |
Publsiher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Power (Social sciences) |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3957878 |
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Comparison of leadership patterns and decision making in urban area public administration within different types of political and social structures - covers the role of private enterprise and socialist political theory, interest groups, cultural factors, the role of top management, the role of the Church, the role of the armed forces, political leadership, family structure, etc., and includes information on relevant theoretics and the research method. References.