Building on Place: A Conceptual Foundation For Civic Discourse in Public Administration

Abstract

This article responds to the question of whether public administrators should work to encourage citizen identification with community as a way to build social capital. More specifically, the paper articulates a rationale for public administration's utilization of place—physical environment—as a mechanism to support the emergence of robust, active civil society. The article describes a fundamental difficulty facing many public organizations, the current responses proposed by the civil society literature and its limits, and develops a conceptual framework that may prove useful in overcoming those limits. Based on this framework, the article concludes with the presentation of a preliminary model that details some of the specific ways administrators can utilize the proposed framework.

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