-DOCUSENT MINN ED 156 408 - RC 010 610 AUTHOR Voth, Donald BS, Comp.; And Others . TITLE Citizen Participation in Rural Development, A Bibliography. SRDC Bibliography 4erles 6. INSTITUTION Southern Rural Development Center, State College; Bias. SPoNS amci) Rural Development 'Service (LOA), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE Nov 77 NOTE 493p. AVAILABLE FROM Southern Rural Development Center, Box 5406, Mississippi State, Nisiissippi 39762 ($10.00) ' RS PRICE NF-S1.00 BC- $26.t1 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS , Administration; *Annotated Bibliographies; Bibliographies; Books; *Citizen Participation; Comaunity Developient; Community .Services; *Decision Making; Economically Disadvantaged; Education; _ Health; Land Osel Leadership;,Lccal Government; *Methods; Planning; Policy Foriation; Publications; *Rural Development; Rural Orkin-tifferences; Subject Index Teims; *Theories; TrinspOrtation; Voluntary Agencies 40 ABSTRACT The result of extensive research by the Scuthern Rural Development' Center Functional Network cn Citizen Participation in Rural Development, this bibliography contains 2,310 citations-on citizen participation, 530 of which carry, an annotation cr abstract. Materials come from computerized information 'services, published 'bibliographies, and books or articles. Citizen participation is,here defined as individual or group activities of ordinary citizens in their efforts'to influence public policy, decision making, and implementation. Primary eaphamisiis on administrativ,o,,spcnsored, and voluntary participation, with little attention to political participation: Both rural and urban participation and agricultural And nonagricultural agencies are included so that rural development users may benefit from urban experience and reseacch. Though a few entries from the 30's appear, most are from the 60gs and 70!s; there is an addendum of 50 items found after December 1976. Citations are arranged Alphabetically by author and identified by a code number through which entries are classified into 31 functional areas at the- mid of the bibliography..Largest categories are general and theoretical materials on citizen participation, and citizen participation'in neighborhoods, community develipment, poverty . programs and the poor, education And health care. (RS) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions"supplied by BDRS'are the beat that can be mad. *' * . from the original document. * ****************************************************************** **** 1 / '41 r Viktkigik t tv. a" 00,0 i 40, FOREWORD This bibliography represents the results of extensive research by the SRDC Functional Network on Citizen Participation'in Rural Development. Headed by Donald E. Voth and William.S.00nner of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the network has been in operation since the fall of 1975, examining available research literature for a comprehensive overview of this'topic. The Functional Network developed by the SRDC brings regional participation to the task of developing a base of knowledge for, _rural development programs and activities.Citizen Participation is a sub-area of the foutmajor areas of rural develOpment identified )1' by the U.S. Department of Agriculture:Community Service* and k Facilities, People Building, Economic Improvement, and Environmental Improvement. A Network focuses its attention on a limited area in order to, produce practical results and recommendations. \sin Messrs. Voth and Bonne4 serve as the SRDC.Center Asaociates charge of the Network. Its members represent many organizations and Institutions across the South.These professionals and educators contribute a diversity /of points, of view. Eight other Functional Networks have been formed in this effort torinventory the current state of knowledge in high-priority areas of rural development. Organized by the SRDC and funded through tSRS, the bibliographies they have prepared are being published by the SRDC as the first of a series of publications--information sheets, 'research reports, professional information documents. In addition, Network members will,participate in workshops to'disseminate and 1 interpret their information to rural development practitioners in the The Southern -lurakTevelopment Center, one of four such centers in the nation, focuses on specific rural development problems of the region. It serves the thirteen ibuthern states and'Puerto Rico by developing 'knowledge essential to rural development and by providing technical consultation where needed. The SRDC is jointly sponsored, by Mississippi State University and Alcorn State,thiversity. Its clientele is the Research and Extension staffs of the 27 land-grant institutions with rural development or community resource develoOmeneres(pOnsibilities. &LA")Gil William W. tinder Director 0 4 o 3 0' ir 4 A Bibliography' CITIZEN. PARTICIPATION IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT Donald E. Voth, William S. Bonner University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Co- Associates Functional Network David p. Ruasink Tglas A & M University %. Janice Whitener . AppalachianState'University David Houston University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff . James Dawson Alabama Agricultural andt Mechanical University This bibliography is the product of an SRDC Functional Network with chair- Winship at the Universit of Arkansas at Fayetteville. A contractualagree- ment between the SRDC, ti* University of Arkansas,.and the Cooperative State Research Service of the U. S. Department. of Agriculture provided for thii participation and cooperation. This is one'of a series of bibliographies prepared by research Functional Networks for the Southern Rural Development Criter., Mississippi State, Mississippi. iRDC Bibliography Series #6 $10.90 ii 4 4 :4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Introduction iv . Access to Cited Materials xi Bibliography 1 451 . Addenda Classification of Materials . 4 465 Board of Directors, SRDC 475 . _ Functional Networks and Participating Institutions, SRDC 476 4 S. iii 5 I p CITIZEN PARTICliATION IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT Introduction to the Bibliography by Donald E. Voth, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology Univeriity of Arkansas at Fayetteville This bibliography contains 2310 citations on citizen partici- pation, 530 of which are accompanied by an annotation.or an abstract. Most of these citations refer to published materials, howeversole refer to on-going research which had not yet been Qublished when the original citation was prepared. The citations have been arranged in alphabetical order and identified by a code number in the left. margin. At the end of the bibliography the citations are listed by 1. their code nusbers within thirty-eight functionalareas. Following, the citations which begin with the letter "Z" there isa short ad- . denda section which includes items identified after the body of the bibliography had already been prepared. These ate identified with a code number beginiing with "AD". Although the. size of this bibliography may seem to belie it, the Functional Network on Citizen Participation in Rural Development began its task by delimiting the subject. Citizen participation was . very broadly defined as the individua' or group. activities of people in their role as ordinary citizens through which they hopeto have 'an influende upon pqblic policy, 'decision-making,and implementation. Primary emphasis was placed upon administrativeor spoisored par- : ticipation,;and upon voluntary participation; political partidipation was de-emphasized, if not eliminated entirely. This is because po- litical partitipation hale receiveddetailed treatment by political iv 6 scientists and Abe ae persons in local and state agendi and in. the Cooperative Extens on Service, whoare regarded as,the. primary consumers ofthis resear h, will find_ relatively fewopportunities .to use generalizations abo t political participationperse. Within the areas of cit zen participation identified above, materials dealing with both' 1 and urban pafticipation and par- , ticipation in both agricultural .d non-agricultural agencies w e included. This is because persons orking in rural development ca benefit from, the insights gained fro urban experience acid' research. The general strategy for developin the bibliOgraphy include several stepf. First, general searches w re made for materials on citizen participation, citizen involvement, tc. Second, functional, areas were identified as they emerged'from the\literature which was being collected. Finally, in the process- ofatt ting tsynthesize the research within functional areas, additional sclichesw made for specific functional areas. In the first step th procedu tended to be exclusive, that is,',,items were only included if it was qu ' clear that they dealt primarily with citizen participation. In h last step the procedure wasp:Much more inclusive within those func7 tional are that had been identified. Consequently there are quire, a number of items within functional areas such as health care, for A example, for which the relationship to citizen participation is not obvious from the titles. :.01r When functional areas were identified it became apparent that /-- little was beirig located on cititen participation in rural areas, and in U. S. Department of Agricultural agencies. At this point journals such as Rural Sociology, The Journal of Extension, the' 7 t Journal of Soil acid Water Conservation, etc.were scrutinized care- . fully to identifywmore of_thesematerials. Unfortunately, not very such more was located in this way partly because theteems "citizen participation"