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Tables of Contents for Government Is Us
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Part I The Anti-Government Context
3
68
1. Introduction: The Anti-Government Era
3
16
Cheryl Simrell King
Camilla Stivers
Bashing Bureaucrats
4
3
Why Is Government the Target?
7
5
Government Using Power Against Citizens
8
1
Ineffective or Inefficient Government Policies and Services
9
2
Disconnected Government
11
1
Attitudes in Historical Context
12
5
The Roots of Discontent
17
2
2. Citizenship and Its Discontents: The Political and Economic Context
19
9
Camilla Stivers
Cheryl Simrell King
Renee Nank
The Economic Context of Citizen Discontent
20
5
The Privatization Response
25
3
3. Government Isn't Us: The Possibility of Democratic Knowledge in Representative Government
28
21
Ralph P. Hummel
Camilla Stivers
Representing Lived Knowledge
32
7
The Emptiness of Reason and the Neglect of Sensibility
34
2
Political Sensibility
36
1
Toward a Politics of Care
36
3
Constructing Democratic Knowledge
39
10
Reopening the Public
40
2
Political Judgment and Representativeness
42
2
Public Talk in Public Agencies
44
5
4. Citizens and Administrators: Roles and Relationships
49
22
Cheryl Simrell King
Camilla Stivers
Changing Ideas of Citizenship and Administration
50
10
The Public Administrator's Role
60
2
How Administrators Feel About Their Work
62
9
Part II Strategies for Collaboration
71
134
5. Introduction: Strategies for Collaboration
71
17
Cheryl Simrell King
Camilla Stivers
6. Overcoming Administrative Barriers to Citizen Participation: Citizens as Partners, Not Adversaries
88
14
Mary M. Timney
Models of Citizen Participation: Case Studies of State Energy Policy Development
89
4
Ohio's Energy Strategy
90
1
Indiana's Policy Process
91
1
Missouri's "Citizen's" Energy Policy
92
1
Summary of Cases
93
1
Citizens and Citizen Participation
94
2
Administrators and Citizen Participation
96
3
A New Model of Public Administration
99
3
7. At the Nexus of State and Civil Society: The Transformative Practice of Public Administration
102
20
Lisa A. Zanetti
The Triumph of "Trends"
104
2
Reconnecting the Knowledge of Expertise With the Knowledge of Experience
106
5
Possibilities for a Transformative Practice of Public Administration
111
4
Implications of a Transformative Practice of Public Administration
115
7
8. The EPA Seeks Its Voice and Role With Citizens: Evolutionary Engagement
122
18
Walter W. Kovalick, Jr.
Margaret M. Kelly
Environmental Protection-Then and Now
123
5
Environmental Protection and Economics
124
1
Increasingly Complicated Approaches
124
1
Better Detection, Smaller Risks
125
1
Industrial Permits and Allowable Pollution
125
1
Monitoring for Compliance, Not Real-Time Health Effects
126
1
Subsurface Pollution
126
1
Citizen Perceptions of Unresponsiveness
127
1
Unintended Consequences of the "One Size" Approach to Regulation
128
1
Organizational Lens
128
4
Statutory and Program Mandates
132
3
Evolution of Roles
135
4
The EPA and Its Citizens
139
1
9. We Want Your Input: Dilemmas of Citizen Participation
140
18
Dolores Foley
Community Planning for HIV Prevention
140
9
Positive Outcomes
141
1
Problems of Participation
142
6
Defining Community
143
2
Technical Expertise and Community Participation
145
3
Community Input
148
1
Implications
148
1
Models of Community Governance
149
2
Developing a Culture of Public Participation
151
2
Tools for Practicing Public Participation
153
3
Conclusion
156
2
10. Working With Citizens: Breaking Down Barriers to Citizen Self-Governance
158
17
Richard C. Box
Deborah A. Sagen
Sagen: The Practitioner's View
160
5
From Theory to Practice
160
1
Managing the Public
161
3
A Citizen's Perspective
164
1
Returning to Public Service
164
1
Box: Whom Do We Serve and for What Purpose?
165
6
Who Controls Community Policy Making?
165
2
The Options Open to Practitioners
167
3
Finding the Right Balance
170
1
Conclusion
171
4
11. Targeted Community Initiative: "Putting Citizens First!"
175
20
Joseph E. Gray
Linda W. Chapin
South Apopka Project
176
2
Lessons Learned From South Apopka
178
3
Community Building: From Project to Initiative
181
2
The TCI Planning Process
183
5
Implementation: More Lessons Learned
188
1
Community Action Teams: The Evolution Continues
189
1
Conclusion
190
5
12. Conclusion: Strategies for an Anti-Government Era
195
10
Cheryl Simrell King
Camilla Stivers
Habits of Mind
196
3
Administrative Practices
199
2
The Political-Economic Context
201
1
Government (of the People) Is Us
202
3
References
205
10
Index
215
6
About the Collaborators
221