@inbook{c0f4e15289704eb29eb0d41cd4abb1f9,
title = "Community Elites or Community Elitism? the Democratic Challenge of Empowering Community",
abstract = "This chapter links a historical literature on community elites to a modern debate about the nature of governance, the movement towards networks, and the implications of these changes for communities. The chapter looks at community elites through the lens of two critical questions: (1) Does empowering community elites at the local scale lead to more democratic governance? (2) Does empowering community elites at the local scale lead to justice or empower those prone to Not-In-My-Backyard (NIMBY) policies? In addressing these questions, the chapter draws from an interdisciplinary literature base including writing on new governance, community elites, and the Right to the City, and provides illustrations from cases in New Orleans, LA.",
keywords = "Community, Community elites, Deliberative democracy, Informal governance, Network governance",
author = "Stephen Danley",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-77416-9_5",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "79--94",
booktitle = "Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research",
}