Five Ways to Make a Difference: Perceptions of Practitioners Working in Urban Neighborhoods
本文用Q方法系统比较了城市社区中五种被认为有影响力的从业者类型（持久型、奋斗型、促进型、组织型、开拓型），挑战了单一化的认知，为理解和支持实践提供了新方向。
Abstract This article responds to and develops the fragmented literature exploring intermediation in public administration and urban governance. It uses Q‐methodology to provide a systematic comparative empirical analysis of practitioners who are perceived as making a difference in urban neighborhoods. Through this analysis, an original set of five profiles of practitioners—enduring, struggling, facilitating, organizing, and trailblazing—is identified and compared. This research challenges and advances the existing literature by emphasizing the multiplicity, complexity, and hybridity, rather than the singularity, of individuals perceived as making a difference, arguing that different practitioners make a difference in different ways. The authors set out a research agenda, overlooked in current theorization, that focuses on the relationships and transitions between the five profiles and the conditions that inform them, opening up new avenues for understanding and supporting practice .