Government Is Us 2.0 (Paperback)

Part I: Introduction 1. The Context: Citizens, Administrators, and Their Discontents 2. Citizens and Administrators: The Possibilities and Dilemmas Part II: Democracy and Engagement Through Different Lenses 3. Democracy as a Way of Life: Rethinking the Places and Practices of Public Administration 4. The Citizenship Role of the Public Professional: Imagining Private Lives and Alternative Futures 5. Cultivating and Sustaining Empathy as a Normative Value in Public Administration 6. Models of Citizen Participation: Measuring Engagement and Collaboration 7. Democratic Governance through Public-Nonprofit Partnerships: Reclaiming “A Usable Past” from the Settlement House Movement Part III: Stories of Practice 8. The EPA Seeks Its Role in Communities: Evolutionary Engagement 9. Obituary: Team Metro 10. Eliminating Institutional Racism within Local Government: The City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative 11. A Case of Transformational Change: Making Sustainability Real in the City of Olympia 12. Think Global, Act Local? A Short Story Part IV: Imagining the Possibilities 13. Imagining the Possibilities