Interviews and focus-group discussions were used to determine how the processes of public participation in public administration can be improved. Results suggest that participation requires changes in citizen and administrator roles and relationships and in administrative processes. (JOW)

The nation faces a youth citizenry that is disengaged and lacks the necessary knowledge, skills and dispositions to participate in and carry out their civic duties. This ECS Policy Brief summarizes the state-level goals and accomplishments of the Youth Legislative Engagement project and is intended for state policymakers, education leaders and…

Based on remarks the author made to a United Nations luncheon, this short article relates the role of women in society. (ND)

In addition to collecting and analyzing information about progress on desegregation plan implementation, each of the court ordered citizens groups mentioned functions as a "third party" between the defendants (state education departments and local school officials) and the plaintiffs, and among school employees, students, parents, the…

The task force that compiled this report was created to identify ways to improve citizen involvement within all sectors of the public broadcasting system and to offer recommendations for change. The report presents a brief history of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, offers six general recommendations for advancing public involvement, and…

A study was conducted to investigate the complex influences which converge on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The literature revealed that in the past, most attempts by individuals or groups to have a voice in the renewal of a broadcaster's license met with failure because the FCC generally abandoned both its formulated policy and its…

The similarities between the conditions that brought on the American Revolution and our present social conditions need to be stressed in textbooks and classrooms.

Analyzes the role of social scientists working in India during the June 1975 to March 1977 political emergency, when publication and teaching were affected by the threat of censorship. Concludes that this time was one of either demoralization or corruption of social scientists. Journal availability: see SO 507 083. (KC)

Discusses the kinds of information needed for planning in public libraries, and some of the difficulties and pitfalls in obtaining such information. Suggestions for improved methodology in public library planning emphasize the roles of citizens, both library users and nonusers, and library staff members in the planning activities. (Author)

What political scientists should be teaching undergraduates to prepare them for citizenship is discussed in five articles by Dennis F. Thompson; Nancy C. M. Hartsock; Wilson Carey McWilliams and Marc K. Landy; Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.; and Mary Cornelia Porter and Corey Venning. (RM)

Looks at the role of a community council in formulating goals and objectives for (1) the community education process and (2) its own specific role. Considers three processes leading to realistic objectives: (1) identifying activity parameters (goal areas), (2) establishing goal priorities, and (3) formulating specific objectives for performance.…

The criminal justice system may possibly increase the dangers to public safety by turning out a greater number of hostile and dangerous persons than it takes in. (DM)

experiments by University of Illinois researchers suggest that computers can give ordinary citizens an opportunity to play an active role in city planning and the formulation of government policy. (Author)

Paper developed in a graduate seminar in the Department of Resource Planning and Conservation, School of Natural Resources, The University of Michigan.