Del i serien Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies

Neighborhood Self-Management

Experiments in Civil Society

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvHillel Schmid

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The community council reflects an advanced stage in the development of community and voluntary organizations that lacked the organizational and professional infrastructure, know-how, and technologies, as well as the competence to cope with the powerful governmental and municipal establish ment.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-09-20
Mått155 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNonprofit and Civil Society Studies
Antal sidor168
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781461354666

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1: Introduction.- Structure of the Book.- 2: Theoretical Framework.- Organizational and Structural Factors Influencing Decentralization of Authority.- 3: The Neighborhood Self-Management Organization: Background, Vision, Ideology, and Organizational Domain.- The Changing Context of Human and Social Services.- The Role of Voluntary Nonprofit Organizations in Providing Social and Communal Services.- The Nature of Neighborhood Organizations.- Domain Consensus of the Neighborhood Organization.- Vision and Espoused Goals.- 4: Neighborhood Self-Management Organizations: An International Perspective.- Community Councils in Scotland.- Community Councils in England.- Community Councils in Wales.- Neighborhood Committees in the Netherlands.- Neighborhood Councils in Italy.- Neighborhood Councils in the Nordic Countries.- Community Councils in Canada.- Neighborhood Self-Management in the United States.- Neighborhood Associations in Japan.- Community Boards in Christchurch, New Zealand.- 5: The Community Council as a Merger of Two Neighborhood Organizations: Neighborhood Self-Management and Community Centers.- The Population of Jerusalem: A General Description.- The Emergence of Neighborhood Self-Management Organizations in Jerusalem.- The Merging Process: Driving and Restraining Forces.- Findings of a Study on Community Councils in Jerusalem, 1992–1997.- 6: Ideological, Structural, and Organizational Dilemmas of Neighborhood Organizations in International Perspective.- Lack of a Defined Legal Status and Political Legitimation.- Dependence on External Funding Sources.- Lack of Public Legitimation.- The Unique Identity of the Neighborhood Organization.- Voluntary Nonprofit Organization or Bureaucratic System?.- Representative Democracy and Participatory Democracy.- Equity inAllocation of Public Resources.- 7: Vision and Reality in the Community Council.- Obstacles to Positioning the New Entity in the Metropolitan Area.- The Vision — Has It Been Fulfilled?.- Organizational and Structural Patterns in the Development of Neighborhood Organizations.- The Unique Contribution of the Community Council — Prospects for the Future.- References.