New COMM-ORG Paper: Citizens' District Councils in Detroit:

[colist at comm-org.utoledo.edu]

Hi COMM-ORG,

I am very pleased to announce a new addition to the COMM-ORG
Papers Collection:

Citizens' District Councils in Detroit:  The Promise and Limits of Using 
Planning Advisory Boards to Promote Citizen Participation

by

Robert Mark Silverman 

This paper looks at what real participation means, and how close one 
model of participation gets to the ideal.

You can find the paper at the COMM-ORG "Papers" page, in the 
2003 section:

http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/papers.htm

I hope that the paper inspires some discussion.  Authors contribute 
papers to COMM-ORG in the hopes of getting comments, so please 
feel welcomed to contact the authors directly or discuss their paper 
through the list.   

Thanks so much to Rob for contributing his work.  

Randy Stoecker
moderator/editor, COMM-ORG
randy.stoecker at utoledo.edu