INT 900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Public Participation, Lions Clubs International, Robert D. Putnam

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Interdisciplinary Studies
• Course: INT 900
• Professor: John Shields

Document Summary

Communitarians want to balance individual and collective rights community based approach to problem solving and policy making. Can see this in governance and place-based policies. Modified markets are needed in case of emergency. Strong community (expansion of non-profit sector) can help protect us from an all powerful welfare state. Partnership between government and community is important. Civil society the space where uncoerced human association and relational networks (groups that are getting together to talk) formed for the sake of family, faith (religion), interests (seals, or anything) and ideology (neoliberalism) occurs (waltzer, 1991). Really critical because of capital making purposes. Public participation in various kinds of formal and informal voluntary organizations not part of state or market. Non profits are the organizational face of civil society. Civil society suggests volunteerism, community engagement, charity, service delivery, advocacy, etc. The networks of civil society are where trust, understanding and civility come to be generated.