| List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xii |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| References | p. 7 |
| Re-energizing Citizenship: Why, What and Hoiv? | p. 8 |
| What is the agenda about? The meaning of re-energizing citizenship | p. 10 |
| Why re-energizing citizenship is promoted | p. 15 |
| Crime | p. 16 |
| Tackling anti-social behaviour | p. 17 |
| Regeneration and housing | p. 18 |
| Education | p. 19 |
| Health | p. 19 |
| Local Government | p. 20 |
| Learning from applied social science: Answering the 'how' question | p. 22 |
| References | p. 23 |
| Civil Renewal: The Agenda for Empowering Citizens | p. 26 |
| The renewal of citizens' power | p. 26 |
| Recovering the progressive ethos of empowerment | p. 29 |
| Re-orientating public institutions towards empowerment | p. 31 |
| Strengthening our civic infrastructure | p. 34 |
| Public space for public deliberations | p. 35 |
| Subsidiarity-based decision making | p. 36 |
| Citizenship development | p. 37 |
| Conclusion | p. 38 |
| References | p. 39 |
| Bibliography of civic republican and progressive communitarian writings | p. 39 |
| Involvement in Community Involvement: Referral Order Volunteers | p. 41 |
| Background to the Referral Order and community volunteers | p. 43 |
| Background to the case study area | p. 48 |
| The content of panel meetings - theory and reality | p. 51 |
| Implementing change | p. 54 |
| Implications for future practice and concluding remarks | p. 57 |
| Notes | p. 60 |
| References | p. 61 |
| Civil Renewal, Control Signals and Neighbourhood Safety | p. 63 |
| Background to the empirical research | p. 66 |
| Survey results | p. 70 |
| Concluding discussion | p. 81 |
| Four sub-areas | p. 81 |
| Government-citizens partnerships | p. 86 |
| Notes | p. 87 |
| References | p. 89 |
| Anti-Social Behaviour and Civil Renewal | p. 91 |
| Introduction | p. 91 |
| Governance, community engagement and social capital: towards a critical understanding | p. 93 |
| Profile of Greenhill district | p. 96 |
| Crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour | p. 98 |
| Governance and service delivery | p. 98 |
| Anti-social behaviour and civil renewal: context and issues | p. 100 |
| The impact of anti-social behaviour and the challenge of renewal | p. 102 |
| Change strategies - challenges and dilemmas | p. 105 |
| Conclusion | p. 108 |
| References | p. 109 |
| Incentive Schemes and Civil Renewal | p. 112 |
| Introducing our four study areas | p. 112 |
| How survey respondents perceived their neighbourhoods | p. 114 |
| Social control: how the residents handle problems | p. 115 |
| Problems caused by young people | p. 115 |
| Problems caused by adults | p. 116 |
| Perceptions of public authorities' roles | p. 117 |
| How far residents are aware of the incentive schemes and how they evaluate them | p. 121 |
| How residents view alternative approaches to civil renewal | p. 124 |
| Why individual incentives may help foster social cohesion: some brief theory | p. 128 |
| Conclusions: the value of incentive schemes in civil renewal | p. 135 |
| The True Costs of Public Participation | p. 138 |
| The issue | p. 138 |
| The case for measurement | p. 139 |
| The case against measurement | p. 141 |
| The evidence base | p. 144 |
| Research methodology | p. 146 |
| The findings | p. 147 |
| Implications | p. 153 |
| The limits of method: economic and evaluative | p. 154 |
| A way forward | p. 156 |
| Recommendations | p. 157 |
| Future work | p. 158 |
| Closing remarks | p. 159 |
| Notes | p. 160 |
| References | p. 160 |
| Faith, Hope and Clarity: Faith Groups and Civil Renewal | p. 163 |
| Introduction | p. 163 |
| Rationales for faith group involvement | p. 164 |
| Values-added: the normative rationale | p. 167 |
| Capitalizing civil renewal: the resources rationale 171 Representation and leadership: the governance rationale | p. 175 |
| Integration: a fourth rationale? | p. 177 |
| Conclusion: a model of faith group involvement | p. 178 |
| Notes | p. 182 |
| References | p. 182 |
| Conclusion | p. 185 |
| The agenda on re-energizing citizenship | p. 185 |
| The implementation challenge | p. 187 |
| Incentives and costs | p. 190 |
| The normative dimension and conceptual challenges | p. 191 |
| The future research agenda | p. 194 |
| Design experiments | p. 195 |
| Randomized control trials | p. 199 |
| Conclusions | p. 204 |
| References | p. 204 |
| Index | p. 206 |
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