Connecting Government to Community: A study of social and political connectivity at the municipal level.

连接政府与社区：市级社会和政治连通性研究。

• 批准号: LP0562714
• 负责人: Prof Mark Considine
• 金额: $ 26.99万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2006-07-10 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP0562714
• 关键词: Connecting; Government; Community; study; social

Facilitating community strengthening by making public institutions more responsive to the needs of citizens is a central policy challenge in the global era. This project will advance theoretical, methodological and practical understandings of this issue by using comparative measures of personal ties and organizational connectedness in four municipalities to explicate the networks linking politicians, bureaucrats, civic leaders and ordinary citizens. The study will generate new measures of which kinds of connections count most, which ties bring more isolated groups closer to engagement, and which community strengthening strategies are likely to make improved governance outcomes feasible.

通过使公共机构更多地响应公民的需要来促进社区加强，是全球时代的一项核心政策挑战。该项目将在理论、方法和实践方面促进对这一问题的理解，方法是在四个城市使用个人联系和组织联系的比较措施，阐明连接政治家、官僚、公民领袖和普通公民的网络。这项研究将产生新的衡量标准，包括哪些类型的联系最重要，哪些联系让更多与世隔绝的群体更接近参与，以及哪些社区加强战略可能使改善治理结果变得可行。