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A Civic Agency Perspective on Change

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Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler describe what happens in the development of society as a political project. They present their Civic Driven Change: a framework for socio-political analysis and action, which has been refined and elaborated in earlier studies.

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  1. For those interested, theories informing CDC can be found in Fowler and Biekart (2012) and in earlier articles we have written together (Fowler and Biekart, 2008, 2011; Biekart and Fowler 2009, 2012; Berkhout et al., 2011). These include foundational theories of human and civic agency, citizenship and power, allied to action theories of empowerment, collective action and political interfaces with a polity.

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Presents Civic Driven Change (CDC), a framework for socio-political analysis and action

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Biekart, K., Fowler, A. A Civic Agency Perspective on Change. Development 55, 181–189 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2012.9

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