1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779491903321

Autore

Schachter Hindy Lauer

Titolo

State of Citizen Participation in America [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlotte, : IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014

ISBN

1-61735-836-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Collana

Research on International Civic Engagement

Altri autori (Persone)

YangKaifeng

Disciplina

323.0420973

Soggetti

Public administration - United States - Citizen participation

Political participation - Citizen participation - United States

Public administration - Citizen participation - United States

Political planning - Citizen participation - United States

Political planning - United States

Government - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Political Rights - U.S

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Series Page""; ""The State of Citizen Participation in America""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part I: Civic Participation in America""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""Chapter 2: Looking Back on the Founding""; ""Part II: Citizen Participation and Policy""; ""Chapter 3: Encouraging Citizenship in U.S. Presidential Administrations""; ""Chapter 4: The Usability of Government Information""; ""Part III: Citizen Participation: Trends and Assessments""; ""Chapter 5: Citizen Participation at the Local Level""

""Chapter 6: Citizen Engagement in Local Environmental Policy""""Chapter 7: Applying Technology to Enhance Citizen Engagement With City and County Government""; ""Chapter 8: Engaging Hispanics in Governance""; ""Chapter 9: Online Citizen Participation""; ""Chapter 10: Voluntary Associations, Nonprofit Organizations, and Civic Engagement""; ""Part IV: Citizen Participation: Innovative Cases""; ""Chapter 11: Citizen Deliberation on Health Care Costs""; ""Chapter 12: The Benson-Ames Alliance""; ""Chapter 13: Deliberative Polling"";



""Chapter 14: Citizen Participation and Performance""

""Chapter 15: An Analysis of Collaborative Governance Models in the Context of Shared Services""""Part V: Research Reflections""; ""Chapter 16: Researching Participation Through Interpretive Phenomenology""; ""Chapter 17: Social Psychological Barriers to Communicative Rationality""; ""Part VI: Conclusion""; ""Chapter 18: Theory Building and Testing in Citizen Participation Research""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812988203321

Autore

Cleere Jan

Titolo

Nevada's remarkable women : daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers who shaped history / / Jan Cleere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guildford, Connecticut : , : Twodot, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4930-1584-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Women of the west series

Remarkable American women

Altri autori (Persone)

CleereJan

Disciplina

979.30099

Soggetti

Women - Nevada

Women pioneers - Nevada

Frontier and pioneer life - Nevada

Nevada Biography

Nevada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Alison Oram Bowers; Ferminia Sarras; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins; Lucy Ellen "Nellie"Verrill Mighels Davis; Dat So La Lee; Helen Jane Wiser Stewart; Idah Meacham Strobridge; Eliza Cook; Daughters of Charity; Josephine Reed Pearl; Mayme Virginia CliftonStocker; Anne Henrietta Martin; Ah Cum Kee; Maude Frazier; Felice Cohn; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR