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Donohew, Lewis; Springer, Edward R. – Community Development Journal, 1980
In contrast to the traditional model of diffusion from the top down, an information-seeking model focuses on the individual who is looking for a source to meet an information need. The change agent's role involves organizing the community and assisting in finding information sources. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Development, Decision Making, Diffusion

Richards, R. O. – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1984
This field study of a small midwestern town undergoing development suggests that external resources (such as state and federal aid) do not necessarily diminish local decision making if the community has shared values, conflict resolution mechanisms, local issues, and healthy social networks. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Control, Community Development, Conflict Resolution

Agnew, John A.; And Others – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1978
Previous research into the community innovation process has tended to emphasize either intercommunity communication or local socioeconomic and political factors. This article incorporates both sets of factors in an analysis of urban renewal, public housing, automated data processing by local municipalities, and public water fluoridation.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Change, Community Characteristics

Johnston, Gladys Styles; Yeakey, Carol Camp – Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 1979
Sheds light on a growing conflict that has surfaced between urban communities and teachers' unions: the conflict over the sharing of power in school decision making. Discusses the actions of the Philadelphia Parents Union. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Community Control, Community Involvement, Decision Making
Charles, Searle F., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1978
The successes and failures in balancing state and local control of public community colleges are explored in this collection of essays describing effective and non-effective coordinating and planning efforts. Vincent S. Darnowski explores the Connecticut community colleges' struggle with a centralized state bureaucracy. Sidney W. Brossman uses the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Community Colleges, Community Control, Decision Making
Ravindranath, R.; Singh, Subrata – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2005
Community, in the policy context, is defined on the basis of fixed in place socio-political unit having residential proximity to the resource or according to state recognized political units. With the boundaries drawn at the village level and the custodial rights of the common lands vested with various departments of the state, it is difficult on…
Descriptors: Horticulture, Spatial Ability, Decision Making, Conservation (Environment)

Finn, Mary A.; Stalans, Loretta J. – Crime and Delinquency, 1995
Reports how husband's mental state, antagonism between the disputants, and victim injury affected officers' inferences and referral decisions to battered women shelters and outpatient mental health centers. Officers' age and perceptions of: husband's mental state, wife's credibility, wife's intent, husband's responsibility, and victim injury…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Battered Women, Community Control, Community Responsibility

Wilson, Michael – Arts Education Policy Review, 1996
Summarizes data extracted from a national survey of Canadian provinces concerning educational policy towards arts education. Discovers greater centralized control in the more populous provinces with the remote areas ceding authority to local boards. Different provinces appear to conceive of the arts in significantly different ways. (MJP)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Art Education, Community Control, Data Collection