Public Participation and Innovations in Community Governance

Contents: Introduction, Peter McLaverty; Overcoming severe obstacles to public participation: indigenous people and impact assessment procedures in Australia, Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh; Public participation and integrated development planning in decentralized local government: a case study of democratic transition in South Africa, Cornie Groenewald and Antoinette Smith; Tlalpan neighbourhood committees: a true participatory option, Arturo Flores; Decentralization and citizen participation in Barcelona, Georgina Blakeley; Metropolitan governance and democracy: how to evaluate new tendencies, Daniel KA1/4bler and Sonia WA?lti; Decentralization: new forms of public participation or news forms of managerialism?, JohnDiamond; Rediscovering the citizen: new roles for politicians in interactive policy making, Erik-Hans Klijn and Joop F.M. Koopenjan; Neighbourhood councils - municipal instruments or grass-roots movement? some reflections on results from two Norwegian surveys, Nils AarsA|ther, Torill Nyseth and AsbjA?rn RA?iseland; Is public participation a good thing?, Peter McLaverty; Index.