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Policy Design for Democracy

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ISBN-10: 0700608443

ISBN-13: 9780700608447

Edition: 1997

Authors: Anne Larason Schneider, Helen Ingram

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How can democracy be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted with government? Part of the answer lies in the design of public policy that unmistakenly works to advance citizenship by listening to, educating, and involving ordinary people. Rather than serve mainly the narrow interests of powerful groups who are socially constructed as "deserving" or issuing discipline and punishment to powerless people socially constructed as "undeserving," public policy needs to advance citizenship, solve problems, pursue justice, and balance the interests of individuals with a concern for the collective good. Policy Design for Democracy is a theoretically sophisticated work that draws…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 9/8/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Helen Ingram is Research Fellow at the Southwest Center, University of Arizona, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or editor of many books, including Reflections on Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and Cooperation (MIT Press, 2001).

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Policy Design and Democracy
A Pluralist View of Public Policy
Alternatives to Pluralism
Foundations, Elements, and Consequences of Design
Social Constructions of Target Populations: Degenerative Policy Designs
Social Constructions of Knowledge: Scientific and Professional Policy Designs
Conclusions
References
Index