Title

Outcomes Achieved Through Citizen-Centered Collaborative Public Management

Abstract

One result of the inability of citizens to make themselves heard by administrative arms of government is frustration that ultimately festers into distrust and alienation. There is ample evidence of serious levels of generalized distrust of government and alienation from it on the part of the citizenry (King and Stivers 1998; Nye, Zelidow, and King 1997). In the case of Los Angeles, these feelings began taking on active and organized manifestations in the efforts by parts of the city to secede and form their own municipal governments (Box and Musso 2004). One of the main motivating concerns behind these movements was an expressed belief that their communities were not receiving their fair share of public services from city agencies. The San Fernando Valley, with over one million residents, had made several unsuccessful attempts at secession over several decades, but state legislative changes in the 1990s made that process less difficult. The result was that by 1999 three areas of Los Angeles began moving through the legal process of secession: the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, and the L.A. Harbor areas of San Pedro and Wilmington. The San Fernando Valley and Hollywood qualified for the ballot in a special election but did not receive enough votes to break away (Hogen-Esch 2001; Sonenshein and Hogen-Esch 2006).

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management

Number of Pages

211-229

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315706146-17

Socpus ID

85076077102 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85076077102

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