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Advocacy of neighborhood government should be based on a careful assessment of possible dangers & deficiencies, as well as merits. The obstacles to increasing neighborhood power are listed as the costs of community organizing in terms of time & effort, community conflict, city-neighborhood conflict, & the general political conflict. To persuade individuals to engage in collective action it is necessary that the rewards of such action be greater than personal costs. Serious participation is likely to occur only when neighborhood government programs offer visible rewards & work to solve concrete problems. There is a specific awareness that many unions & politicians will fight neighborhood government & that they have the power to damage & destroy it. There is also the sense that, whereas there has been success in developing community structures, it has been difficult to move government toward decentralization & toward more flexible administrative procedures. Thus in NY, where experimentation with neighborhood government has gone the furthest, the strategy now is to face the failures of government directly first, before promising participatory innovations. It unlikely that the neighborhood government program will be implemented in many cities soon, especially where there are minorities present which will seek centripetal participation--control of city hall. Modified HA.

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