Empowering communities -beyond fashionable rhetoric? Some reflections on Scottish experience

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Empowerment has become a popular concept in regeneration strategies for disadvantaged communities. This may owe more to its ambiguous promise than its actual achievements. In the light of experience of Scottish local authority practice in community development, the paper considers what empowerment might mean in this context, why it is so difficult to achieve, how practitioners might approach it and indicators to measure performance. It is suggested that, despite the ambiguity of the concept and the constraints, if a realistic approach is taken, it is nontheless a worthwhile objective.

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