scholarly journals Testing the open government recipe: Are vision and voice good governance ingredients?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Ingrams ◽  
Wesley Kaufmann ◽  
Daan Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Two Component ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Public Decision ◽  
Public Decision Making

Existing research shows that open government can result in better governance outcomes. However, there remains a gap in our understanding of how open government’s two component dimensions of transparency and participation – “vision” and “voice” – affect governance outcomes, and how they relate to each other within public decision-making. We use a survey experiment to test the impact of transparency and participation on a range of governance outcomes (satisfaction, perception of fairness, and trust) in a municipal decision-making process. The findings show that both transparency and participation positively affect these governance outcomes. However, we do not find support for an interaction effect of transparency and participation. Implications for research and practitioners are discussed.

scholarly journals “All this Regulatory Uncertainty in the Air”: The Indispensability of Public Hearings in Guarding and Guiding Public Deliberation

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaclyn Carroll ◽  
Pete Bsumek
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Regulatory Uncertainty ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Public Decision ◽  
Public Decision Making

The field of Environmental Communication has often critiqued the shortcomings of public hearings, noting their limitations in bringing about effective and equitable public decision making. While this work has been significant, it has tended to limit the deliberative field to public hearings themselves, sometimes going so far as to assume that public hearings are the only spaces in which significant deliberations occur. Using a field analysis of the “No Coal Plant” campaign in Surry County, Virginia (2008–2013), the authors illuminate some limitations of existing literature. Their analysis suggests that while public hearings can be extremely limiting, even “failed” public hearings can play a critical role in constituting, organizing, and pacing formal and informal deliberative spaces, which are necessary for communities as they manage the stresses and strains of the decision-making process.

A Matter of Life or Death: A Survey Experiment on the Perceived Legitimacy of Political Decision-Making on Euthanasia

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-650
Author(s):  
Henrik Serup Christensen ◽  
Staffan Himmelroos ◽  
Maija Setälä
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Political Decision Making ◽  
Do So

AbstractMost representative democracies seem to experience dwindling levels of legitimacy in the eyes of citizens. Nevertheless, it remains unclear what people want from parliamentary decision-making. In this study, we test the impact of outcome favourability, actor involvement and justifications on the perceived legitimacy of a parliamentary decision-making process on euthanasia in Finland. We do so with the help of a survey experiment (n = 1243), where respondents were exposed to a vignette where the treatments varied randomly. The results suggest that outcome favourability is of primary importance, but the involvement of experts and citizens also boost legitimacy in the eyes of citizens. Justifications, or presenting arguments for the decisions, does not enhance legitimacy and may even cause a backfire mechanism where the difference between getting and not getting the preferred outcome is amplified.

Analysis of farms characteristics related to innovation needs: a proposal for supporting the public decision-making process

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 104892
Author(s):  
Andrea Arzeni ◽  
Elisa Ascione ◽  
Patrizia Borsotto ◽  
Valentina Carta ◽  
Tatiana Castellotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Decision ◽  
Public Decision Making
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