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Rural policy and direct local participation: Democracy, inclusiveness, collective agency, and locality-based policy

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Swanson, Louis E
  • Journal Name: Rural Sociology
  • Journal Number: Vol.66, No.1
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • Published Location: Columbia, United Kingdom
  • Country: United States, Mexico

During the closing decades of the twentieth century, the federal government has experienced a period of delegitimation and fiscal crisis that has led to decentralization of some federal programs and a fledgling revival of community- and place-based policies. Historic and recent records of locality-based policies suggest that they are not panaceas for achieving programmatic goals.

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