National Civic Review articles from June 2003

National Civic Review archives from June 2003

Note from the editor.(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... Even in the best of times, when peace and prosperity abound, it can be difficult to reconcile the urgent claims of global and national concerns with the daily work of community building at the local level. When times are considerably more...

The healthy communities movement: a time for transformation.
June 22, 2003... The healthy cities and communities movement in the United States is less than twenty years old, yet many are ready to put the nails in the coffin and declare the movement dead. After a surge of interest in the 1980s and 1990s, the idea of...

Community support organizations: enabling citizen democracy to sustain comprehensive community impact.
June 22, 2003... Nearly every community-based collaborative--formed to address issues ranging from homelessness to the arts to child well-being--is expected to support and sustain its work by itself. Think about it. Agencies and organizations from across...

The civic village's stake in human development.
June 22, 2003... Over the last decade, the decline in community and political participation has generated a bevy of proposals to get citizens active in civic renewal. A range of social change strategies encompassing associational, electoral, environmental, and...

Free airtime: how to use a public good for the public interest.
June 22, 2003... The enactment of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was the most significant overhaul of the nation's campaign finance system in a generation. It bans unlimited contributions from labor unions, corporations, and wealthy...

Effective mayoral leadership in council-manager cities: reassessing the facilitative model.
June 22, 2003... To understand the kind of leadership that the chief elected official in a council-manager government can provide requires rethinking standard assumptions and models. Americans are accustomed to looking for strong executives in Washington and...

From popular to personal democracy.
June 22, 2003... American democracy was once the creation of its citizens. They enabled a relatively small government to rule a big nation. As citizen soldiers, they secured their country's autonomy, cleared it for European settlement, and preserved its unity...