Includes bibliographical references and index.

Direct citizen participation: challenges and dilemmas -- Administrative theory and direct citizen participation -- Citizens as social learners -- The recovery of civism in public administration / H. George Frederickson -- Toward a public philosophy of public administration: a civic perspective of the public / Curtis Ventriss -- Facilitating community, enabling democracy: new roles for local government managers / John Nalbandian -- The new public service: serving rather than steering / Robert B. Denhardt and Janet Vinzant Denhardt -- Citizens as coproducers, owners, and co-investors -- Citizenship and service delivery: the promise of coproduction / Charles H. Levine -- Reinventing government or reinventing ourselves: two models for improving covernment performance / Hindy Lauer Schachter -- Reframing the metaphor of the citizen-government relationship: a value-centered perspective / Gerald E. Smith and Carole A. Huntsman -- Arenas of direct citizen participation -- Policy implementation: programs and sectors -- Citizen participation in community action and model cities programs / John H. Strange -- Decentralization and citizen participation in education / Marilyn Gittell -- Decentralization and citizen participation in criminal justice systems / Richard A. Myren -- Community participation and modernization: a reexamination of political choices / Curtis Ventriss and Rorbert Pecorella -- Policy analysis, initiation, and budgeting -- The democratization of the policy sciences / Peter deLeon -- Public deliberation: an alternative approach to crafting policy and setting direction / Nancy Roberts -- The relationship between citizen involvement in the budget process and city structure and culture / Carol Ebdon -- Mechanisms of direct citizen participation -- Individual participation -- Institutionalized use of citizen surveys in the budgetary and policy-making processes: a small city case study / Douglas J. Watson, Robert J. Juster, and Gerald W. Johnson -- Small group participation -- Emergent citizen groups and emergency management / Robert A. Stallings and E.L. Quarantelli -- Citizens panels: a new approach to citizen participation / Ned Crosby, Janet M. Kelly, and Paul Schaefer -- Large group participation -- Consensus-building for integrated resources planning / Lance deHaven-Smith and John R. Wodraska -- State strategic planning: suggestions from the Oregon experience / Gerald R. Kissler ... [et al.] -- The practice of deliberative democracy: results from four large-scale trials / Edward C. Weeks -- Electronic participation -- Reinventing the democratic governance project through information technology? A growing agenda for debate / Andrew Kakabadse, Nada K. Kakabadse, and Alexander Kouzmin -- Assessments of direct citizen participation -- Resident participation: political mobilization or organizational co-optation? / David M. Austin -- Citizen participation in the Philadelphia model cities program: retrospect and prospect / Erasmus Kloman -- Citizen participation: can we measure its effectiveness? / Judy B. Rosener -- Making bureaucrats responsive: a study of the impact of citizen participation and staff recommendations on regulatory decision making / Judy B. Rosener -- The question of participation: toward authentic public participation in public administration / Cheryl Simrell King, Kathryn M. Feltey, and Bridget O'Neill Susel -- Assessing public participation in U.S. cities / XiaoHu Wang -- Administrative agents of democracy? A structural equation modeling of the relationship between public-sector performance and citizenship involvement / Eran Vigoda -- Building theories of direct citizen participation -- Public involvement in public management: adapting and testing a borrowed theory / John Clayton Thomas -- Putting more public in policy analysis / Lawrence C. Walters, James Aydelotte, and Jessica Miller -- From responsiveness to collaboration: governance, citizens, and the next generation of public administration / Eran Vigoda -- Direct citizen participation: coming of age -- Index -- About the editor.