Civic Engagement in a Network Society
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- Description
- Contents
Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation. This book provides practitioner insights on how to improve their managerial practices that relate to civic engagement.
Chapter 1. Civic Engagement in a Network Society: An Introduction; Kaifeng Yang and Erik Bergrud.
- Part I. Networks, Public Management, and Civic Engagement.
- Chapter 2. It Takes Two to Tango: When Public and Private Actors Interact; Annika Agger, Eva Sørensen, and Jacob Torfing.
- Chapter 3. Collaboration Management in Public Administration: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of Mutual Challenges for Governance, Citizens, and Businesses in Modern Network Societies; Eran Vigoda-Gadot.
- Chapter 4. New Ways of Working: Civic Engagement Through Networks; Myrna Mandell.
- Chapter 5. Conductive Public Organizations in Networks: Collaborative Management and Civic Engagement; Robert Agranoff.
- Part II. Case-Based Perspectives on Civic Engagement and Network Society.
- Chapter 6. Civic Engagement as Collaborative Complex Adaptive Networks; David Booher.
- Chapter 7. Opening Up What May Yet Come: Performing Civic Engagement in a Complex World; Jean Hillier and Joris Van Wezemae.
- Chapter 8. A Comparative Study of Citizen Engagement in Infrastructure Planning in Japan and the United States: A Look at Legal Frameworks and Two Successful Cases; Shunsaku Komatsuzaki and Hindy Lauer Schachter.
- Chapter 9. Citizensourcing: Citizen Participation in a Networked Nation; Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer and Lars Hasselblad Torres.
- Part III. The Internet And Civic Engagement.
- Chapter 10. Does Internet Use Really Facilitate Civic Engagement? Empirical Evidence From the American National Election Studies; Hun Myoung Park and James L. Perry.
- Chapter 11. Something Rich and Strange: Participation, Engagement, and the Tempest of Online Politics; Jason MacDonald and Caroline Tolbert.
- Chapter 12. Opportunities for Civic Engagement: An Online Assessment of Worldwide Municipal Web Sites; Marc Holzer and Aroon Manoharan.
- About the Authors.