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Liston, Vanessa; Harris, Clodagh; O'Toole, Mark; Liston, Margaret – Research-publishing.net, 2013
In this chapter we show how a new type of political knowledge can be harnessed from everyday communication flows between citizens to support community and policy development processes. The emergence of this new knowledge will be enabled by an e-supported deliberation process (SOWIT) that aims to improve political communication and deliberation…
Descriptors: Humanities, Technology Uses in Education, Community Development, Policy Formation

Kotze, D. A. – Community Development Journal, 1987
The author states that there are inherent contradictions and assumptions in community development (CD) theory and practice. Contradictions spring from a tendency to apply CD on an inappropriate level and for incorrect purposes. Assumptions spring from CD's Western cultural origins. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Size, Participative Decision Making
Anderson, Donald L. – 1999
Conventional anti-poverty efforts have failed because they have not created the structures for the poor to help themselves, and they are designed and controlled by people outside of the affected communities. Introduced in 1968 by the National Association of the Southern Poor, the Assembly is a non-political structure that organizes community…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Organizations, Economically Disadvantaged

Wright, Susan – Journal of Rural Studies, 1992
Describes the role of the rural community development worker in achieving social change by encouraging participatory decision making. Presents results of a participatory research study in which the author, as a community worker, empowers a village with a failed water supply to seek change where they had previously experienced resistance by…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making
Phillips, Susan D.; Orsini, Michael – 2002
In Canada and elsewhere, the shift from more horizontal models of governance and toward a more organized, diverse, and empowered civil society has sparked renewed interest in citizen involvement. The various dimensions of citizen involvement in policy processes are as follows: (1) mobilizing interest; (2) claims making; (3) knowledge acquisition;…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Community Change, Community Development