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COMMUNITY, EMPOWERMENT, AND THE CITY: SOURCES
OF CAPACITY IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
by
Alicia Kitsuse
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Alicia Kitsuse
Object Description
| Title | Community, empowerment, and the city: sources of capacity in local governance |
| Author | Kitsuse, Alicia |
| Author email | kitsuse@mac.com; kitsuse@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Planning |
| School | School of Policy, Planning, and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-06-24 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-08-07 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Musso, Juliet A. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sloane, David Weare, Christopher Wong, Janelle |
| Abstract | This study investigates the factors that generate local-level capacity for community governance in low-material-resource communities. Two current models of capacity building suggest competing ways in which community governance capacity may be built, whether through the “bottom-up” interaction of indigenous local resources with interventions designed to enhance those resources, or through a “top-down” approach in which local capacity is instantiated through the design of state-centered citizen participation programs. Drawing on the “hybrid” example of the City of Los Angeles’ neighborhood council system, which combines an institutional framework of local governance with reliance on indigenous resources, the study engages a micro-level comparison of the means and mechanisms that produce governance capacity within three neighborhood council organizations using the competing frameworks to structure analysis. The investigation concludes by offering a model of supported self-determination, which suggests how top-down and bottom-up approaches to capacity building may be reconciled. |
| Keyword | participatory governance; community capacity; citizen empowerment; community building; local self-determination |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3341 |
| Rights | Kitsuse, Alicia |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Kitsuse-3762 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Kitsuse-3762.pdf |
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| Full text | COMMUNITY, EMPOWERMENT, AND THE CITY: SOURCES OF CAPACITY IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT by Alicia Kitsuse ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Alicia Kitsuse |
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