Varieties of Civic Innovation : Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches.

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Embedding Public Deliberation in Community Governance -- 2. Ways of Knowing the Los Angeles River Watershed: Getting from Engaged Participation to Inclusive Deliberation -- 3. Civic Innovation, Deliberation, and Health Impact Assessment: Democratic Planning and Civic Engagement in San Francisco -- 4. Intramovement Agenda Setting: Nationalizing North Carolina's Fight to Defeat an Anti-Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment -- 5. Civic Communication in a Networked Society: Seattle's Emergent Ecology -- 6. Accounting for Diversity in Collaborative Governance: An Institutional Approach to Empowerment Reforms -- 7. Networks and Narratives in the Making of Civic Practice: Lessons from Iberia -- 8. Turning Participation into Representation: Innovative Policy Making for Minority Groups in Brazil -- 9. Bringing the State Back In through Collaborative Governance: Emergent Mission and Practice at the US Environmental Protection Agency -- 10. A Systemic Approach to Civic Action -- Contributors -- Index.

Hopeful and hard-headed analyses of innovative forms of democratic practices in communities.

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