Community participation - Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Notes
Executive summary
1 S. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (New
York: Vintage Books, 1972).
Conceptual note
1 The organisation Involve has produced an interesting summary of the state of
civic participation in the UK, which includes interviews with influential thinkers and
academics. Involve, People and Participation (London: Involve, 2005), available
at: http://www.involving.org/mt/archives/blog_13/
People%20and%20Participation%20final.pdf.
2 M. Woolcock, ‘The place of social capital in understanding social and economic
outcomes’, ISUMA: Canadian Journal of Policy Research, Vol. 2, No. 10,
pp. 11–17 (Spring 2001).
3 M. Granovetter, ‘The strength of weak ties’, American Journal of Sociology,
Vol. 78, pp. 1360–80 (1973).
4 M. Woolcock, ‘The place of social capital in understanding social and economic
outcomes’, ISUMA: Canadian Journal of Policy Research, Vol. 2, No. 10,
pp. 11–17 (Spring 2001).
Chapter 1
1 Lecture by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, MP at the 17th Arnold
Goodman Charity on the ‘Civic Society in Modern Britain’, Thursday 20 July
2000, Merchant Taylor’s Hall, London. Available at: http://www.cafonline.org/
downloads/ev_goodman_lecture.pdf.
2 S. Arnstein, ‘A ladder of citizen participation,’ Journal of the American Institute of
Planners, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 216–24 (July 1969).
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