Does Local Government Matter?: How Urban Policies Shape Civic Engagement

by Elaine B. Sharp

Until recently, policy evaluation has mostly meant assessing whether government programs raise reading levels, decrease teen pregnancy rates, improve air quality levels, lower drunk-driving rates, or achieve any of the other goals that government programs are ostensibly created to do. Whether or not such programs also have consequences with respect to future demands for government action and whether government programs can heighten--or dampen--citizen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816677182
• ISBN13: 9780816677184
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"