Community participation - Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Notes
Chapter 4
1 J. Guare, Six Degrees of Separation (London: Methuen Drama, 1992).
2 For example, ‘The initial challenge here is to reach beyond what are sometimes
called the “usual suspects”. The “usual suspects” are the residents who are most
inclined (and able) to get involved and have their say. There is a strong case for
considering consultation mechanisms that will give those who are not regularly
involved a chance to consider the budget options faced by the council’. Office of
the Deputy Prime Minister, Council Tax Consultation – Guidelines for Local
Authorities (London: ODPM, 2002).
3 C. Hay, ‘Structure and agency’, in D. Marsh and G. Stoker (eds), Theory and
Methods in Political Science (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995).
4 See, inter alia, D. Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (London:
William Heineman, 2003) and M. Buchanan, Small World: Uncovering Nature’s
Hidden Networks (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002).
5 A. Laslo Barabasi, Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and
What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (New York: Plume,
2003); M. Buchanan, Small World: Uncovering Nature’s Hidden Networks
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002).
6 J.-P. Bouchaud and M. Mézard, ‘Wealth condensation in a simple model of
economy’, Physica A, Vol. 282, pp. 536–40 (2000).
7 See M. Buchanan, ‘The science of inequality’, in H. McCarthy, P. Miller and P.
Skidmore (eds) Network Logic: Who Governs in an Interconnected World?
(London: Demos, 2004).
8 Even when the scientists ran the model starting from a perfectly egalitarian model
with all agents on exactly equal terms, the same highly unequal distribution
eventually occurred.
9 M. Foley and R. Edwards, ‘Is it time to disinvest in social capital?’, Journal of
Public Policy, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 199–231 (1999).
10 J. Birchall and R. Simmons, ‘A theoretical model of what motivates public service
users to participate’, ESRC Democracy and Participation (2002), cited in J.
Aspden and D. Birch, New Localism – Citizen Engagement, Neighbourhoods and
Public Services: Evidence from Local Government (London: ODPM, 2005).
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