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Participatory policy process design: lessons learned from three European regions

Participatory policy process design: lessons learned from three European regions Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, March 2011 Participatory policy process design: lessons learned from three European regions CLELIA COLOMBO, MATEJA KUNSTELJ, FRANCESCO MOLINARI and LJUPCO TODOROVSKI Introduction Electronic Participation (eParticipation) generally refers to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance people’s activism and citizens’ involvement in public affairs—with a particular emphasis on legislation and policy-making—of modern democratic societies. Recently, the fastest growth of both ‘top-down’ (i.e. Government-driven) and ‘bottom-up’ (i.e. spontaneously emerging from the citizenry) eParticipation experiments in Western Europe and elsewhere, has inspired a number of interpretive frameworks, which have been 1 2 developed by several leading scholars, such as Anttiroiko, Macintosh, 3 4 5 Tambouris et al., Kalampokis et al., Aichholzer and Westholm, and Bicking and Wimmer, with the aim of scoping, characterizing and evaluating this relatively new phenomenon and its reported impact on civic engagement, as well as on Public Administration’s innovation. Besides the ritual wish to improve voter turnout and stimulate new forms of active citizenship through the diffusion of ICTs, a common feature of the above frameworks is that they all focus on Public Administration processes—in the legislative, administrative or policy-making domains—as the natural ‘loci’ http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Taylor & Francis

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Participatory policy process design: lessons learned from three European regions

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Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, March 2011 Participatory policy process design: lessons learned from three European regions CLELIA COLOMBO, MATEJA KUNSTELJ, FRANCESCO MOLINARI and LJUPCO TODOROVSKI Introduction Electronic Participation (eParticipation) generally refers to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance people’s activism and citizens’ involvement in public affairs—with a particular emphasis on...
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Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, March 2011 Participatory policy process design: lessons learned from three European regions CLELIA COLOMBO, MATEJA KUNSTELJ, FRANCESCO MOLINARI and LJUPCO TODOROVSKI Introduction Electronic Participation (eParticipation) generally refers to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance people’s activism and citizens’ involvement in public affairs—with a particular emphasis on legislation and policy-making—of modern democratic societies. Recently, the fastest growth of both ‘top-down’ (i.e. Government-driven) and ‘bottom-up’ (i.e. spontaneously emerging from the citizenry) eParticipation experiments in Western Europe and elsewhere, has inspired a number of interpretive frameworks, which have been 1 2 developed by several leading scholars, such as Anttiroiko, Macintosh, 3 4 5 Tambouris et al., Kalampokis et al., Aichholzer and Westholm, and Bicking and Wimmer, with the aim of scoping, characterizing and evaluating this relatively new phenomenon and its reported impact on civic engagement, as well as on Public Administration’s innovation. Besides the ritual wish to improve voter turnout and stimulate new forms of active citizenship through the diffusion of ICTs, a common feature of the above frameworks is that they all focus on Public Administration processes—in the legislative, administrative or policy-making domains—as the natural ‘loci’

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