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Constructing citizen participation: Public participation in the age of the New Right.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Constructing citizen participation: Public participation in the age of the New Right./
Author:	MacFarlane, Christine Mary Florence.
Description:	218 p.
Notes:	Adviser: M. Haughey.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
Subject:	Education, Social Sciences. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ81233
ISBN:	9780612812338

Constructing citizen participation: Public participation in the age of the New Right.
MacFarlane, Christine Mary Florence.

Constructing citizen participation: Public participation in the age of the New Right. - 218 p.

Adviser: M. Haughey.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2002.

This study explores the function of citizen participation in the redesign of Alberta's Children's Services, which began in 1994. Interviews with five co-chairs of the redesign Steering Committees, on-site observations, and an analysis of related documentation provide the basis for this study. Findings indicate that although citizens have been empowered, it is empowerment at a cost. Citizen participation has been adopted as a technology to facilitate an attack on the welfare state rather than as an organizational value integral to policy development. Participation is characterized as mirroring technocratic decision-making processes, involving those least likely to be directly affected, focusing on administrative implementation of department policy, and downplaying critical reflection, questioning, and systemic analysis. Therefore participation functions as an inexpensive, voluntary, non-critical, administrative mechanism for the government's attack on the welfare state. Participation has been constructed to emulate good business strategies with the participant-citizens as the business managers of public funds. Differences between individuals and groups are depolitized and homogenized. Community voice has replaced citizen voice, while democratic representation has taken a backseat to government-appointed representation. The "integrated citizen" is the cornerstone of this participatory process. The paradoxical impact of citizen participation on women is discussed. Paradoxes of citizen participation are identified. Recommendations regarding further areas of research and ethical guidelines for the implementation of citizen participatory processes are outlined.

ISBN: 9780612812338Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019148
Education, Social Sciences.

Constructing citizen participation: Public participation in the age of the New Right.
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