Journal of the Community Development Society articles

Recent articles from Journal of the Community Development Society

The Drop-Off/pick-Up Method for Household Survey Research
July 1, 2001... ABSTRACT The hand delivery of self-administered questionnaires has been presented as an alternative for reducing non-coverage error associated with the mail method at lower cost than face-to-face interviews. This research note draws from experiences using the hand delivery technique...

A Validity Assessment of Aggregation Methods for Multiple Key Informant Survey Data
July 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Comparative community researchers are often faced with the task of collecting detailed information about actions and events across a large number of communities. Key informants can play a crucial role in providing such data. For a variety of reasons, however, it is often difficult...

Reevaluating Community Power Structures in Modern Communities
July 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Classic studies of community power, carried out using different methods in different communities, sparked debate between "elitists" and "pluralists." This debate has not been resolved despite the fact that recent studies point to new conceptualizations of this key issue in...

New Editor's Comments
July 1, 2001... The next issue of the Journal of the Community Development Society will be my first since being appointed Editor by the Board of the Community Development Society. This summer you will receive Volume 33, No 1, which will be a special issue on "Community Development Theory for Practitioners",...

Looking Back and Looking Forward: Directions of Change for the Journal
July 1, 2001... Looking Back Over the past five years as editor of the Journal of the Community Development Society I have had a unique opportunity to observe directions taken in various research topics and academic disciplines. This observation has been based on receipt of numerous manuscripts for possible...