Civic Culture, Community and Citizen Participation in Contrasting Neighbourhoods

Iain Docherty, Robina Goodlad and Ronan Paddison
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Iain Docherty: Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, 25 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS, UK, i.docherty@socsci.gla.ac.uk
Robina Goodlad: Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, 25 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS, UK, r.goodlad@socsci.gla.ac.uk
Ronan Paddison: Department of Geography and Topographic Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 9QQ, UK, rpaddison@geog.glaac.uk

Urban Studies, 2001, vol. 38, issue 12, 2225-2250

Abstract: This paper uses survey and qualitative evidence from four neighbourhoods in two cities to explore the hypothesis that citizen participation in urban governance is fostered by political structures and public policy as well as by a civic culture supportive of citizen involvement. The analysis shows that although the prospects for citizen participation are likely to be least propitious in poor neighbourhoods demonstrating lower educational attainment levels, for example, such factors may be mitigated by political mobilisation and the approaches to urban governance, including citizen participation, adopted by local institutions. Citizen participation may be fostered as much by the creation of opportunity structures that build confidence in the efficacy of participation as by the intrinsic levels of civic culture. The key policy lesson is that the effort devoted to creating greater institutional thickness and participatory structures is not wasted.

Date: 2001
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