An Evaluation of Community Development Block Grant Decisionmaking: Executive Dominance vs. Issue Networks

Maier, Peter E.; Nachmias, David

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0072.1990.tb00617.x

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“…In addition, there are questions surrounding the viability of coproduction ventures, because citizens in some cases have been tainted by citizen participation experiences. Citizens commonly have experienced governmental insincerity with respect to its willingness to listen and act on what it hears (Berry, Portney & Thomson, 1989;Crosby, Kelly & Schaefer, 1986;Macer & Nachmias, 1990;Kettl, 1979).…”

Section: Controllables Operationalized: Engaging Citizensmentioning

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Local government performance through the eyes of citizens

Glaser

Denhardt

2000

Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting &Amp; Financial Management

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Citizens generally do not have a good understanding of local government and consequently have difficulty assessing performance objectively. Instead, they permit a variety of indicators and sources of information to shape their perceptions of government. This research takes a first step toward an improved understanding of citizen-government relations, especially focusing on how citizens see government. The survey results from over 1800 citizens in Orange County, Florida (including the metropolitan area of Orlando) are analyzed through a series of multiple regression models employing varied assumptions and citizen populations to better understand what drives citizen perceptions of local government performance. To effectively change citizen-government relations, local government must honor citizen values and priorities by demonstrating that it listens to citizens and acts on what it hears.

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Section: Controllables Operationalized: Engaging Citizensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local government performance through the eyes of citizens

Glaser

Denhardt

2000

Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting &Amp; Financial Management

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Sustainable community tourism development revisited

Joppe¹

1996

Tourism Management

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The Microfoundations of Policy Inertia

Tortola¹

2014

State and Local Government Review

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It is widely acknowledged that a key cause of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)'s longevity is its feedback effect on federal policy making via the creation of a large coalition of beneficiaries. Much less is known about the ''microfoundations'' of this self-perpetuating logic, namely, the city-level mechanisms directing local preferences toward preserving the grant. As a first attempt to fill this gap, this article identifies three such mechanisms and tests them on the cases of Arlington, VA, and Baltimore, MD. The study aims to contribute to a more fine-grained picture of the CDBG's dynamics and suggest new avenues for the reform of this program.

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An Evaluation of Community Development Block Grant Decisionmaking: Executive Dominance vs. Issue Networks

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

Local government performance through the eyes of citizens

Local government performance through the eyes of citizens

Sustainable community tourism development revisited

The Microfoundations of Policy Inertia

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