Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Rethinking Public Empowerment
Department
School of Public, Nonprofit & Health Administration
College
College of Community and Public Service
Date Range
2012-2013
Disciplines
Education | Law | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Traditional notions of empowerment have treated the citizen-administrator relationship as a zero-sum game, where influence gained by one party is assumed to come at the expense of the other. Such assumptions often result in relationships framed in negative terms, setting citizens and administrators at odds with
Conference Name
National Citizen Review Panel Conference
Conference Location
Jackson Hole, WY
ScholarWorks Citation
Buckwalter, Neal, "Rethinking Public Empowerment" (2013). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 1252.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/1252