Abstract
Sometimes, in America, community development corporations are expected to play roles in place of public sector, and they do play them. I guess that community development corporations have functioned as the alternative governments, and their functions have been made in the institutional history. And I think that the institutional history has been made in the american traditional neighborhood government. The neighborhood government is not merely the production of idea. It has really existed in the american local institutions.
The neighborhood government is another one different from other level of governments. In the era ofparticipatory democracy, it governed the neighborhood area. People were not only governed by neighborhood government, but they participated directly in the politics of the government. The neighborhood government is a prototype of participatory democracy, and it shares a lot of features with community development corporations.
In this article, I try to read the presence of the neighborhood government in the works of Milton Kotler, and to reconsider the significance of his theory.
