Participatory Society Research

In the coming year I plan to complete several monographs on the causes and consequences of the participatory transformation on local government, business, society, public administration, and the nonprofit sector. Here is a list of the first set of publications and proposed research papers:

Nonprofit Sector

Gregory D. Saxton. The Rise of Participatory Society: Challenges for the Nonprofit Sector. Paper presented at the 2004 annual conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), November 18-20, Los Angeles, CA.

• Companion site with further information on core concepts and hyperlinks to all organizations mentioned in the paper.

Gregory D. Saxton. 2005. The Participatory Revolution in Nonprofit Management. Forthcoming in The Public Manager.

Gregory D. Saxton. "Computer-Mediated Communications and the Expansion of Participatory Practices in the Nonprofit Sector." Under review at Nonprofit Management & Leadership.

Gregory D. Saxton. "The Emerging Participatory Society: The Implications of Increasing Participation for Nonprofit Organization, Governance, and Management." Working paper being prepared for submission to Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Public and Private Sector Management

Gregory D. Saxton. 2004. The Rise of Participatory Society: Challenges for Public Administration. PA Times 27(11): 4-5.

Gregory D. Saxton. "Participatory Decision-Making in Local Governance: Bottom-Up Demands and Institutional Responses." Working paper being prepared for submission to Political Research Quarterly.

Gregory D. Saxton. "The Emerging Participatory Society: Management Challenges for the Twenty-First Century." Working paper being prepared for submission to Administrative Science Quarterly.

Gregory D. Saxton. "The Participatory Transformation in Business: Leading and Managing in a New Era." Working paper being prepared for submission to the Academy of Management Executive.

Gregory D. Saxton. "The Emerging Participatory Society: Causes, Consequences, and Commotions." Working paper being prepared for submission to Political Science Quarterly.