This paper is a work in progress and comments are welcome. Introduction This paper considers aspects of participation processes in urban regeneration, including the results of case study research into two urban regeneration programmes: the North Belfast Housing Strategy in Northern Ireland, and the Ballymun regeneration initiative in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The paper begins with a review o...

Approaches to involving the public in local health care decision making processes (and analyses of these approaches) have tended to treat participation and publics uniformly in search of the ideal method of involving the public or providing the same opportunities for public participation regardless of differing socio-economic, cultural, insitutional or political contexts within which decisions ...

E-Participation is a relatively new approach, so it is necessary to evaluate it carefully, in order to understand it better, acquire more knowledge about it and identify the advantages and benefits it offers, and also its disadvantages, shortcomings and problems, so that we can finally improve eparticipation proctice. However, even though many countries invest significant amounts of money in e-...

We examine the participation of public and private firms in merger waves and productivity outcomes. We show that public firms participate more than private firms as buyers and sellers of assets and their participation is more cyclical. Public firms are affected more by credit spreads and aggregate market valuation. Public firm transactions are also impacted positively by their stock market valu...

access to stable development requires organized participation of all people, including women in all institutes. reduction of limitations and increase in legal authority of women are necessary to achieve the highest rate of participation. in this regard, a developmental approach demands a balanced increase in the legal knowledge, organizational authorities and civil demands of women particularly...

abstract this study aimed at identifying and prioritizing the barriers to participation of staff of public offices in kerman province in physical activities. the statistical population consisted of all staff of public offices of kerman province (n=23360 according to the annual statistics of offices in kerman province in 2012). the sample size was 378 subjects using krejcie and morgan (1970) tab...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between citizen engagement in various public participation programs and the participants’ assessment of transparency in local government. To examine this relationship, the study focused on three aspects of citizen participation: (1) citizen engagement in participation programs generally, (2) online versus offline participation, and (3) o...