El. knyga: Imagining Regulation Differently: Co-creating for Engagement

This book stems from the five-year research program, “Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement.” UK contributors are academics, researchers, and practitioners in socio-legal studies, social history, collaborative research, community development, politics of work, and sociology. They explore regulation and other ways to encourage community engagement in government decision making. The book starts with background on theory and practice in regulation and discussion of problems with regulatory practice, then profiles real programs and projects in the UK. Some subjects include community researcher training, Muslim engagement in city government, arts activism, and the role of community anchor organizations in regulating for engagement in a devoted government setting. B&w photos and images are included. Distributed in the US by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Responding to the urgent need to rethink the relationships between systems of government and those who are governed, this book examines ways that we can design regulatory systems that better support the knowledge and creativity of citizens.

There is an urgent need to rethink relationships between systems of government and those who are ‘governed’. This book explores ways of rethinking those relationships by bringing communities normally excluded from decision-making to centre stage to experiment with new methods of regulating for engagement. Using original, co-produced research, it innovatively shows how we can better use a ‘bottom-up’ approach to design regulatory regimes that recognise the capabilities of communities at the margins and powerfully support the knowledge, passions and creativity of citizens. The authors provide essential guidance for all those working on co-produced research to make impactful change.

This book innovatively explores how we can better apply a ‘bottom-up’ approach to the design of regulatory systems that recognise the capabilities, knowledge, passions and creativity of citizens in communities at the margins.