Psychosocial Approaches to Citizen Mobilization in Local Economic Development

Psycho-social perspectives on citizen involvement shed much light on some further obstacles to mobilizing public involvement and support for activities designed to improve the local economy.

The relative depravation theory of citizen involvement points out that more involvement is to be expected from people the greater their relative marginalization from the core group in an area. The standard socio-economic model points to a greater involvement from people of higher socioeconomic and educational status.

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