Re-energizing Citizenship Strategies for

Re-energizing Citizenship examines the dual character of civil society. The malaise in civil society is seen as a key to understanding anti-social behaviour, the weaknesses of regeneration schemes and the divisions and antagonisms of our societies. Yet the resources and skills hidden away in civil society, if they could be unlocked, are seen as the key to effective intervention. The book provides a critical examination of attempts to re-energize citizenship in a range of contexts and offers insights into what works.

TESSA BRANNAN is a Researcher at the Institute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG) at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests are in community engagement and policy evaluation, learning and implementation.

PETER JOHN is Hallsworth Professor of Governance and Co-director of the Institute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG), University of Manchester, UK. His research interests are urban politics and policy, both UK and comparative, public policy theory, civil renewal and social capital and research methods.

GERRY STOKER is Co-director of the Institute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG) at the University of Manchester, UK. His research expertise is in governance, democratic politics, local and regional governance, urban politics, public participation and public service reform.

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
References	p. 7
Re-energizing Citizenship: Why, What and Hoiv?	p. 8
What is the agenda about? The meaning of re-energizing citizenship	p. 10
Why re-energizing citizenship is promoted	p. 15
Crime	p. 16
Tackling anti-social behaviour	p. 17
Regeneration and housing	p. 18
Education	p. 19
Health	p. 19
Local Government	p. 20
Learning from applied social science: Answering the 'how' question	p. 22
References	p. 23
Civil Renewal: The Agenda for Empowering Citizens	p. 26
The renewal of citizens' power	p. 26
Recovering the progressive ethos of empowerment	p. 29
Re-orientating public institutions towards empowerment	p. 31
Strengthening our civic infrastructure	p. 34
Public space for public deliberations	p. 35
Subsidiarity-based decision making	p. 36
Citizenship development	p. 37
Conclusion	p. 38
References	p. 39
Bibliography of civic republican and progressive communitarian writings	p. 39
Involvement in Community Involvement: Referral Order Volunteers	p. 41
Background to the Referral Order and community volunteers	p. 43
Background to the case study area	p. 48
The content of panel meetings - theory and reality	p. 51
Implementing change	p. 54
Implications for future practice and concluding remarks	p. 57
Notes	p. 60
References	p. 61
Civil Renewal, Control Signals and Neighbourhood Safety	p. 63
Background to the empirical research	p. 66
Survey results	p. 70
Concluding discussion	p. 81
Four sub-areas	p. 81
Government-citizens partnerships	p. 86
Notes	p. 87
References	p. 89
Anti-Social Behaviour and Civil Renewal	p. 91
Introduction	p. 91
Governance, community engagement and social capital: towards a critical understanding	p. 93
Profile of Greenhill district	p. 96
Crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour	p. 98
Governance and service delivery	p. 98
Anti-social behaviour and civil renewal: context and issues	p. 100
The impact of anti-social behaviour and the challenge of renewal	p. 102
Change strategies - challenges and dilemmas	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 108
References	p. 109
Incentive Schemes and Civil Renewal	p. 112
Introducing our four study areas	p. 112
How survey respondents perceived their neighbourhoods	p. 114
Social control: how the residents handle problems	p. 115
Problems caused by young people	p. 115
Problems caused by adults	p. 116
Perceptions of public authorities' roles	p. 117
How far residents are aware of the incentive schemes and how they evaluate them	p. 121
How residents view alternative approaches to civil renewal	p. 124
Why individual incentives may help foster social cohesion: some brief theory	p. 128
Conclusions: the value of incentive schemes in civil renewal	p. 135
The True Costs of Public Participation	p. 138
The issue	p. 138
The case for measurement	p. 139
The case against measurement	p. 141
The evidence base	p. 144
Research methodology	p. 146
The findings	p. 147
Implications	p. 153
The limits of method: economic and evaluative	p. 154
A way forward	p. 156
Recommendations	p. 157
Future work	p. 158
Closing remarks	p. 159
Notes	p. 160
References	p. 160
Faith, Hope and Clarity: Faith Groups and Civil Renewal	p. 163
Introduction	p. 163
Rationales for faith group involvement	p. 164
Values-added: the normative rationale	p. 167
Capitalizing civil renewal: the resources rationale 171 Representation and leadership: the governance rationale	p. 175
Integration: a fourth rationale?	p. 177
Conclusion: a model of faith group involvement	p. 178
Notes	p. 182
References	p. 182
Conclusion	p. 185
The agenda on re-energizing citizenship	p. 185
The implementation challenge	p. 187
Incentives and costs	p. 190
The normative dimension and conceptual challenges	p. 191
The future research agenda	p. 194
Design experiments	p. 195
Randomized control trials	p. 199
Conclusions	p. 204
References	p. 204
Index	p. 206
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