Public Policy in the Community (Public Policy and Politics) - Softcover

Taylor, Marilyn

9780333754252: Public Policy in the Community (Public Policy and Politics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333754255 ISBN 13: 9780333754252

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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

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The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and increase civic involvement, believe active communities are essential for tackling a range of social, economic and political challenges, such as crime, sustainable development and the provision of care.

Public Policy in the Community examines the way that community and the ideas associated with it – civil society, social capital, mutuality, networks – have been understood and applied from the 1960s to the present day. 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. Drawing on a wide range of relevant examples from around the world, the book considers the success of existing approaches and the prospects for further developments. Thoroughly updated to reflect advances in research and practice, the new edition of this important text gives a state-of-the-art assessment of the place of community in public policy.

About the Author:

Marilyn Taylor is Professor of Social Policy, University of Brighton

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