| Description |
xii, 281 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in government and public policy
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Community organizing and the changing ecology of civic engagement / Marion Orr -- Running in place : Saul Alinsky, race, and community organizing / Mark Santow -- Community organizing in a nonregime city : the New Orleans experience / Peter F. Burns -- Division and fragmentation : the El Paso experience in global-local perspective / Kathleen Staudt and Clarence N. Stone -- Community organizing and No Child Left Behind / Dennis Shirley and Michael Evans -- Political opportunity, venue shopping, and strategic innovation : ACORN's national organizing / Heidi Swarts -- Higher power : strategic capacity for state and national organizing / Richard L. Wood -- Contextualizing community organizing : lessons from the past, tensions in the present, opportunities for the future / Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge -- Community organizing for what? progressive politics and movement building in America / Peter Dreier -- Summing up : community organizing and political change in the city / Marion Orr. |
| Subject |
Community organization -- United States.
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Community development, Urban -- United States.
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Social participation -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Orr, Marion, 1962-
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| ISBN |
9780700615131 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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070061513X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780700615148 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0700615148 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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