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REFERENCES

The Citizen's Handbook Check it out! A terrific resource put together by the Vancouver Citizen's Committee that can be replicated in any community.

Barber, B. (1984). Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Berkeley CA: University of California Press.  

Beck, P.A. and Jennings, M.K. (1982). "Pathways to Particpation," American Political Science Review. 76 (March), 94-108.  

Greene, K.R. (1982). "Municipal Administrators' Receptivity to Citizens' and Elected Officials' Contacts," Public Administration Review, (July/Aug), 346-353.  

Freedman, Marc. "The Aging Opportunity: America's Elderly as a Civic Resource," The American Prospect No. 29 (November-December 1996): 38-43.  

MacNair, R., Caldwell, R. and Pollane, L. (1983). "Citizen Participation in Public Bureaucracies: Foul Weather Friends," Administration and Society, 14 (Feb.), 507-524.  

Mansbridge, Jane. Does Participation Make Better Citizens? Conference Paper  

Mitchell, J. (1997). "Representation in Government Boards and Commissions." Public Administration Review. March/April, Vol. 57, No. 2, p. 160-167.  

Putnam, Robert. "Bowling Alone," Journal of Democracy, January 1995.  

-         "The Strange Disappearance of Civic America," The American Prospect 24 (Winter 1996): 34-48.  

Schacter, H. L. (1997). Reinventing Government or Reinventing Ourselves: The Role of Citizen Owners In Making a Better Government. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.  

Starr, Paul. "The Disengaged," The American Prospect, Fall 1994, No. 19, pp. 7-8   

Schudson, Michael. "What If Civic Life Didn't Die?" The American Prospect No. 25 (March-April 1996): 17-20

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