PROGRESSIVE REGIMES, PARTNERSHIPS AND THE INVOLVEMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES: A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATION
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This paper examines the nature of community involvement in urban politics as it is played out through regeneration partnerships. At a theoretical level, it explores the potential for a community dimension to local governance, that is, a strategic influence for communities within local power structures. It is argued that the nature of involvement can be explicated by considering three concepts: power (as expressed by urban regime theory), participation and partnership. The paper explores these three broad themes and then focuses on the particular issues pertaining to community involvement in partnership working. Building on this framework, the paper develops a model -- a `wheel of involvement -- for analysing the effectiveness of community involvement in regeneration partnerships. This model enables the effectiveness of involvement to be `quantified by the use of a simple questionnaire survey. It provides a tool for academic researchers and practitioners concerned with evaluating partnerships to begin to explore the quality and level of community involvement in the process of urban renewal. The results of an analysis of two regeneration partnerships are presented as an illustration of the efficacy of the evaluative technique.
Publication Name: Public Administration
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0033-3298
Year: 2000
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CONTRACT BUDGETING
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Contract budgeting attempts to reconfigure public budgeting as a system of purchase contracts between provider agencies and central government. It draws its inspiration from a simple model of contract in which the purchaser buys clearly specified outputs from a provider at a pre-agreed price. Contract budgeting thus represents a fusion of output-based budgeting schemas with the newer enthusiasm for placing the public sector on a 'market' footing. This paper reviews the problems which confront any form of output based budgeting, and then analyses the specific issues of contractualization. It concludes that contract budgeting does not well fit the realities of budgeting in a complex public sector.
Publication Name: Public Administration
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0033-3298
Year: 2000
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