Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The purpose and function of public participation
  • pt. 2. External conditions for legitimate public engagement : ethics, society, and democracy
  • pt. 3. Internal conditions for legitimate public engagement : lessons for the practitioner
  • pt. 4. Institutional contexts of public participation
  • pt. 5. Modes of and experiments in participation
  • pt. 6. Understanding stakeholders and publics.