Teetering at the top of the ladder: the experience of citizen group participants in alternative dispute resolution processes

Article Abstract:

An effective strategy for citizen group participation in alternative dispute resolution processes is crafted following personal interviews with government, citizen and business people who have been involved in collaborative problem-solving processes. Citizens must first assess their determination to take active part in the deliberation and then evaluate their capabilities. After deciding to participate, they should work hard on the best way to tackle the job in the interests of all. Lastly, they should form lasting involvement by following up the execution of such negotiations.

Analysis, Political aspects, Public participation, Dispute resolution (Law), Political participation, Citizens' associations

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Spatial processes and the duality of church and faith: a Simmelian perspective on U.S. denominational growth, 1900-1930

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A research was conducted to analyze different spatial and temporal processes encompassing religious expansion between 1900 and 1930. Georg Simmel has proposed that religion is both spatial as association and aspatial as belief. Religion can be expressed in various concepts such as church, denomination and faith. Simmel's theoretical emphasis on spatial and temporal dynamics is relevant to the understanding of the nature of various mobilization efforts of religious, social and political movements.

Religions, Sects

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Toxic waste siting and community resistance: how cooptation of local citizen opposition failed

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Cooptation is employed as a conceptual framework for investigating a case of environmental problem regarding a proposed toxic waste site that ended with insinuations that community leaders betrayed the public trust in talks with the waste disposal firm. Results indicate that cooptation theory is helpful in elucidating the short-lived success of company efforts during the early part of the negotiations and the dynamics of failure for the long term.

Hazardous waste sites

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