
Citizen Involvement
A Practical Guide for Change
Red Globe Press
Published on 14. January 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVII, 240 pages
978-0-333-48301-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers the first introduction and practical guide to increasing people's say and involvement in their lives, neighbourhood and services. It draws on a major study of initiatives to involve and empower people. It explores a wide range of schemes across a variety of policies and services, including housing, health care, education, community development, social work and social services. It also examines the underlying principles, politics and philosophy of participation. It offers guidelines for participatory policy and practice and a checklist for evaluating and auditing citizen involvement.
Reviews / Votes
'As a practical guide, this book is helpfully written...' - Brian McGinnis, MencapnewsMore details
Series
Edition
1993
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Adult education
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-48301-5 (9780333483015)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-22544-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Book
01/1993
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
Peter Beresford OBE is Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia, Emeritus Professor of Citizen Participation at the University of Essex and of Social Policy at Brunel University London, Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the national disabled people's and service users' organisation and Visiting Professor at Edge Hill University. He has published widely, including The Tyranny of Ideology (2021), The Future of Social Care (with Colin Slasberg, forthcoming) and as Co-editor, The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education (2020) and the International Routledge Handbook of Mad Studies (2022).
Content
Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Making Sense of Citizen-Involvement.- First Steps To Involvement: Information Gathering and Consultation From More Responsive Services to a Direct Say in Decision-making.- Key Components for Effective Involvement.- Guidelines for Involvement: The Agency Perspective Getting Involved with Other People: Moving from Individual to Collective Action.- Guidelines for Involvement: Empowering Ourselves.- Guidelines for Involvement: Developing an Empowering Practice as Workers.- Towards a Policy for Citizen-Involvement.- Further Reading.- Index.