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2 Arnstein, Sherry, ‘A Ladder of Citizen Participation’ in the Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 07 1969, pp. 216–22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Another broad typology is Burke, Edmund, ‘Citizen Participation Strategies’ in the Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 09 1968, pp. 287–94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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6 This comment does not overlook the very interesting advances made by the local amenity society movement in Britain. Lacking the space in this present note for a commentary on the style and apparent goals of many of these groups, the author would offer only the brief comment that they appear to be, on the whole, ‘consumerist’ or demand‐making bodies rather than potential regular partners of public authorities. But the political and social contribution of these bodies is developing and requires monitoring and analysis. Mr Crosland makes some cogent points (from his particular party's viewpoint) in his Fabian Tract 404.

7 Pateman, Carole, Participation and Democratic Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1971.Google Scholar

8 See, for example, Clark, Kenneth and Hopkins, Jeanette, A Relevant War against Poverty, Harper, New York, 1968–69.Google Scholar (Harper Torchbook edition with apparently new preface, 1970.)

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