The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jae Moon ◽  
B. Shine Cho
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Changing Roles

Based on a review of citizenship and citizen participation in politics and policy studies, this article reveals diverse concepts of citizens and citizenship and their changing roles within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that the pandemic will result in bringing citizens back into the policy process, given that active participation of citizens in solving wicked social problems has been emphasised. Our results suggest that the pandemic will result in a return of public citizens as their voluntary, active participation and coproduction practices are expected to increase.

scholarly journals XarxaSalut, network of municipalities for health, Valencia Region (Spain): policy process evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
R Peiró Pérez ◽  
E Pérez Sanz ◽  
E Legaz Sanchez ◽  
J Quiles Izquierdo ◽  
Grupo XarxaSalut
Keyword(s):  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Public Health Authorities ◽  
The Impact

Abstract “XarxaSalut” started in 2017, with the municipalities that have taken the commitment to boost the Promotion of Health (HP) at the local level through community participation, intersectorality and equity perspective. The objective is to present a policy process evaluation (2'5 years) of the implementation of XarxaSalut. Different approaches have been used; a questionnaire addressed to the municipalities at the time of adhesion including data on intersectorality, participation, HP actions and open questions; description of instruments that Regional Public Health Authorities (RPHA) has mobilized and an analysis of barriers and strengths made by the coordination office. In 2017, 17 municipalities were joined, being 197 in February 2020 (70% of the population). 65% are in a process of an organizational change through the intersectoral, decision making and participative working group. 35% are doing analysis of determinants and /or health situation, assets maps and a prioritization of HP actions. The main barriers identified by municipalities are lack of economic and personal resources, and difficulties in achieve citizen participation. The main benefits were the optimization of resources, the exchange of experiences, training, or economic support from the RPHA. Some support instruments develop for RPHA are a collection of guides for community development, funds that the municipalities can apply to support actions related with training, HP action on vulnerable population, on asset maps, participation processes, vulnerable neighborhoods, etc.; Community actions have been included in the “Health Observatory” to give visibility and social support to XarxaSalut. Interdisciplinary training processes with health and municipal professionals have been made in order to develop a common language and strength the competences for HP. Lesson learned: The need to improve coordination and a common language between different types of participants and professionals Key messages The decision makers and professionals in the municipalities understand the impact in health of the policies developed at local level but needs guide and support to deal with it. The coordination between different administrations and primary health at local level and the misunderstandings about health and their determinants are the main aspect to reinforce.

Citizen Participation and the Urban Policy Process

1977 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 698
Author(s):  
John Mollenkopf ◽  
Richard L. Cole ◽  
Stanley B. Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Urban Policy

Qualitative Research at the Policy Table

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda S. Pillow
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Intense Debate ◽  
Research And Policy ◽  
Research Studies

The “paradigm wars” of the 1970s−1990s fostered intense debate about the meanings and purposes of research and policy. Paradigmatic stances seemed to keep these two fields separate—at odds with each other methodologically and theoretically. Tracing this history yields knowledge about past and potential relationships between qualitative research and policy studies. Given qualitative research studies, social phenomena, and policy that reflects social values, it seems obvious that policy studies need qualitative research in order to understand policy processes, from development to implementation and practice, and that qualitative research would benefit from examining, analyzing, and contributing to a policy process. But who is responsible for this work? Are post-paradigm war relations possible and, if so, what may such relations look like? A review of the paradigmatic trajectories of each field allows a closer look at what qualitative and policy relationships look like when specifically thought through a focus on how theory shapes what we think of as research and policy. Whatever purposeful relationships are formed, rethinking dogmatic post-paradigm war logic is necessary to envision new questions that may drive research and policy futures.

scholarly journals Pricing decisions in peer-to-peer and prosumer-centred electricity markets: Experimental analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf J.J. Hahnel ◽  
Michael James Fell
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Electricity Markets ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
The United Kingdom

Prosumer-centred electricity market models such as peer-to-peer communities can enable optimized supply and demand of locally generated electricity as well as an active participation of citizens in the energy transition. An important element of active participation is the improved ability of community members to identify and choose who they transact with in a much more granular way than is usual. Despite this key novelty and the social core of prosumer-centred markets, little is known about how citizens would trade with different actors involved in the system. Here, we report a preregistered cross-national experiment in which we investigated individual trading preferences in a peer-to-peer community, including a variety of private and non-private trading actors. Our data from the United Kingdom (n=441) and Germany (n=440) shows that set buying and selling prices strongly vary, pointing to three systematically different trading strategies that individuals apply as a function of involved trading actor. Findings moreover reveal that trading decisions are determined by individuals’ political orientation, place attachment, and climate change beliefs as well as individual differences in trust in the involved trading actor. Finally, our results illustrate high consistency in trading preferences across nations. However, nation-level differences emerged when decisions were made publicly visible, emphasising the need to consider context-effects in peer-to-peer system design. Our results have implications for the development of prosumer-centred energy models and the design of interventions to increase citizen participation across national contexts.

Civic Technology and Data for Good

2020 ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
John G. McNutt ◽  
Lauri Goldkind
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Large Datasets ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Advanced Analytics ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Civic Technology

Governments have long dealt with the issue of engaging their constituents in the process of governance, and e-participation efforts have been a part of this effort. Almost all of these efforts have been controlled by government. Civic technology and data4good, fueled by the movement toward open government and open civic data, represent a sea change in this relationship. A similar movement is data for good, which uses volunteer data scientists to address social problems using advanced analytics and large datasets. Working through a variety of organizations, they apply the power of data to problems. This chapter will explore these possibilities and outline a set of scenarios that might be possible. The chapter has four parts. The first part looks at citizen participation in broad brush, with special attention to e-participation. The next two sections look at civic technology and data4good. The final section looks at the possible changes that these two embryonic movements can have on the structure of participation in government and to the nature of public management.

scholarly journals Urgensitas Masyarakat Madani Civil Society dalam Mengurai Problematika Sosial: Suatu Tinjauan Terhadap Varian Konflik di Lombok

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68
Author(s):  
Ihsan Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Direct Reaction ◽  
State Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Necessary Existence

Civil society movement post Reformation gained momentum, it ismarked by a growing number of emerging elements of civil society itselfwith various forms of movement and activities performed. The dynamicsof this at once indicates that the process of Westernization of the nationof Indonesia, because of the progress of the process therein, of course,involve the participation of the public good in giving control of theGovernment as well as the active participation in the effort ofmaintaining the harmony node civic social dam in an attempt tomecegah the conflict and remained consistent in providing solutions tothe issues facing the nation. On that basis then the existence of a civilsociety necessary existence. For it was at least the civil society movementcan be manifested into some kind of social movements. The first symbolicresistance, which includes various indirect actions to control thedomination of the country. Secondly, pragmatic resistance that wasconducted as a direct reaction against the wisdom of the Government orthe system of socio-economic-political progress, including in this case bea solution for all social problems. Third, the symbolic resistance-which isa pragmatic action directly or indirectly to the creation of socio-politicalsituation that demands better especially young wong and alsodemanded a reduction in State control against the various areas of lifethe community.

Political and ethical aspects in the ethnography of policy translation: Research experiences from Turkey and China

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 612-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhad Mukhtarov ◽  
Martin de Jong ◽  
Robin Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Policy Models ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Policy Translation ◽  
Policy Mobilities

A currently burgeoning literature in planning and policy studies engages with the travel of policy models across countries and sites through novel concepts such as policy translation, policy mobility, and mutations. Increasingly, this literature calls for ethnographic methods to study the travel of policy models. Such methods require various degrees of researcher’s participation in the policy process. As a result, ethnographers become entangled in complex webs of relationships during and after their fieldwork, which introduces political and ethical dimensions to ethnographic fieldwork. The literature on policy mobilities and translation, however, has provided few practical guidelines regarding the politics and ethics of conducting ethnographic research. Based on two vignettes from our research experiences in China and Turkey, we discuss the politics and ethics of applying ethnography to policy translation and offer a number of hints for future researchers.

Don't Toss Coins in Garbage Cans: A Prologue to Policy Design

1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Design Task ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Level Of Difficulty

ABSTRACTThreats to effective policy-making arising from ubiquitous circumstances of complexity and uncertainty are often taken as reasons to eschew both the attacking of social problems through public policy and cogitation, such as policy analysis, in the policy process. It is suggested here that, as complexity and uncertainty increase, more cogitation is required, not less; but it is crucial that cogitation be of the appropriate sort. Greater use should be made of policy design, as opposed to methods emphasising selection among prespecified alternatives. The required design task varies with the level of difficulty – defined by complexity, uncertainty, and lack of feedback – in any case at hand. A taxonomy of levels of difficulty is developed, together with a preliminary outline of the design task required at each level.

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