Communicative Capacity: Public Encounters in Participatory Theory and Practice
Koen P. R. Bartels
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Description for Communicative Capacity: Public Encounters in Participatory Theory and Practice
Hardback. This unique book explores the growing practice of participatory democracy and uses comparative analysis of cases in the UK, the Netherlands and Italy to show how policy makers, practitioners, students and academics can communicate more effectively. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFF; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 578.
This unique book explores how citizens and public professionals communicate, why this is so difficult and what could lead to more productive conversations. Using timely, original empirical research to make a thorough comparative analysis of cases in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy it shows policy makers, practitioners, students and academics the value of communicative capacity.
This unique book explores how citizens and public professionals communicate, why this is so difficult and what could lead to more productive conversations. Using timely, original empirical research to make a thorough comparative analysis of cases in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy it shows policy makers, practitioners, students and academics the value of communicative capacity.
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
578g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447318507
SKU
V9781447318507
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Ref
99-15
About Koen P. R. Bartels
Koen Bartels is Lecturer in Management Studies at Bangor University (Wales), where he teaches courses in public administration and qualitative research. His research interests are social and democratic innovation, urban governance, participatory democracy, practice, communication, sociology of knowledge and interpretive policy analysis. He has published on public encounters, communicative capacity, practice, volunteering, leadership and action research in various public administration ... Read more
Reviews for Communicative Capacity: Public Encounters in Participatory Theory and Practice
Advancing the communicative planning debate, Bartels examines neighbourhood case studies in Glasgow, Amsterdam and Bologna to show how diverse habits and presumptions in public encounters shape powerful practices of dialogue, debate and deliberation. John Forester, Cornell University This book, which is both conceptually rich and practically useful, should be obligatory reading for citizens, public officials and policy analysts ... Read more