TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chaskin,Robert J.
TI  - Democracy And Bureaucracy in a Community Planning Process
SN  - 0739456X
AV  - NA9000 JOU 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Thousand Oaks
PB  - ACSP
KW  - Community development
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Democratic planning
N2  - The implementation of efforts to revitalize poor communities through participatory, collaborative planning efforts is often problematic. In part, this is because the organization of these efforts embodies an inherent tension between an ideology of associational action and local democracy on the one hand and an adherence to essentially rational-bureaucratic approaches to planning and implementation on the other. This article conceptualizes this tension and examines its unfolding and implications in comprehensive community initiatives through an in-depth case study of one such effort
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X04270467
ER  -