Description
Book SynopsisA study of the evolution of the Community Economic Development movement, paying particular attention to the institutional and legal mechanisms it utilises.
Trade Review“A good overview of the intellectual roots and current policy context for the growing movement to rebuild this country’s communities.”—Martin Eakes, C.E.O., Self Help Credit Union
“An original, informative, and important contribution to the fields of urban studies and social policy.”—Richard Briffault, Columbia Law School
“An outstanding book on a very important subject. Simon has pulled together the many complex strands and woven them into a very readable, comprehensive story.”—Joel F. Handler, author of
Down from Bureaucracy: The Ambiguity of Privatization and Empowerment“Community-based organizations are flourishing despite the atrophy of key parts of America's traditional civil society and turmoil in the provision of public services. Simon gives a compelling, coherent account of their success as an institutionally innovative revival of the republican idea of liberty. Whether you agree or not with the thesis, Simon's deeply informed and carefully argued book is an indispensable point of reference in the intensifying debate about the political vitality of the local in the age of the global.”—Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Background: The Turn to Community-Based Organizations in Social Policy
3. Three Logics of Community Action
4. The Community as Beneficiary of Economic Development
5. The Community as Agent of Economic Development
6. Constrained Property: Rights as Anchors
7. Induced Mobilization
8. Institutional Hybridization
9. The Limits of CED
Index
