Looking for Consensus ― Civil Society, Social Movements and Crises for Public Management

In this volume, academics, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners from Europe, New Zealand, and Egypt present eight essays that seek to make understandable the impact of social movements that emerged since the 2008 financial crisis on decision making in public policymaking at the local level. They focus on local alliances and networks, the role of public managers, and the nature and process of local politics and the relationships of the politics of campaigning and social change to the administration of services. They discuss the global nature of the crisis and how it occurred; the higher education and training of leaders and managers after the Arab Spring in Egypt; the international impact of the Occupy Now movement; the underlying conceptual framework for the Community Organising initiative in the UK; the impact of regeneration and regional programs on how local decision-making is framed and opens up processes to community participation and engagement; concepts of governance, integrity, and ethical decision making; and how poor or deprived communities can work through the global impact of a climate of austerity in England. Distributed in North American by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)