Five Ways to Make a Difference: Perceptions of Practitioners Working in Urban Neighborhoods

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Durose, Catherine; van Hulst, Merlijn; Jeffares, Stephen; Escobar, Oliver; Agger, Annika; de Graaf, Laurens
• 署名单位: University of Birmingham; University of Birmingham; Tilburg University; University of Birmingham; University of Edinburgh; Roskilde University; Tilburg University; Tilburg University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12502
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 576-586
• 关键词: environmental ngos; CIVIL-SOCIETY; NONPROFIT SECTOR; PUBLIC-PARTICIPATION; political-economy; firm performance; CHINA; Embeddedness; TRANSITION; GOVERNMENT

摘要

This article responds to and develops the fragmented literature exploring intermediation in public administration and urban governance. It uses Q-methodology to provide a systematic comparative empirical analysis of practitioners who are perceived as making a difference in urban neighborhoods. Through this analysis, an original set of five profiles of practitioners-enduring, struggling, facilitating, organizing, and trailblazing-is identified and compared. This research challenges and advances the existing literature by emphasizing the multiplicity, complexity, and hybridity, rather than the singularity, of individuals perceived as making a difference, arguing that different practitioners make a difference in different ways. The authors set out a research agenda, overlooked in current theorization, that focuses on the relationships and transitions between the five profiles and the conditions that inform them, opening up new avenues for understanding and supporting practice.