Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and indexes.
Contents
Decentralization: the ideologies of inclusion and deinstitutionalization -- Big cities and patterns of decentralization -- New York City and Detroit: empowerment in perspective -- Creating enablement: Dade county and Los Angeles -- Chicago overview: empowerment today -- Representative democracy: comparing and contrasting the attitudes of Chicago parents -- Enablement or empowerment? The workings of the local school council -- Individual limits to empowerment.