The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in
recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and increase civic involvement …

The shift from government to governance in recent years has created significant new
opportunities for people from disadvantaged communities to participate in the decisions that …

J. Phillip Thompson III, an insider in the Dinkins administration, provides the first in-depth
look at how the black mayors of America's major cities achieve social change. Black …

The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Initiative of 1993 offered targeted
funding and tax incentives to distressed urban and rural communities. This initiative required …

This chapter will seek to accomplish two objectives, one essentially narrative and
descriptive, the other analytical and theoretical. It will first provide a historical overview of the …

Rural development is inherently viewed as a positive thing; it is seen as something that
brings together groups of individuals with automatic positive implications and outcomes …

Despite the scholarly consensus on the importance of civic organizations for the livability of
neighborhoods, there are relatively few empirical studies examining to what extent these …

The legacy of the federal government's Empowerment Zone initiative is contested. The
evidence undergirding the initiative's legacy, however, is based primarily on models that …

Tourism as an Engine of Neighborhood Regeneration? Some Remarks Towards a Better
Understanding of Urban tourism beyond the 'Beat Page 1 CMS Working Paper Series | No …

Using 1990 and 2000 census data, the purpose of this study is to examine just how effective
Chicago's Empowerment Zone programs were at alleviating poverty and improving …