The Redemption of Citizen Advisory Committees: A Perspective from Critical Theory

Without doubt, the citizen advisory committee (CAC) has been the longest-used participatory technique among those covered in this volume. This durable and, in the United States, ubiquitous approach, even with its serious deficiencies in terms of fair and competent discourse, offers important lessons. This is because the validity of the CAC approach is periodically redeemed through changes in the way the bodies are organized and used.

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