Method and Lessons from Evaluating the Impact of E-Participation Projects in MOMENTUM

2013 ◽  
pp. 213-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Wimmer ◽  
Melanie Bicking
Keyword(s):  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Methods Of Evaluation ◽  
Funding Program ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Participation Process ◽  
Motivation To Participate ◽  
The Impact

Decreasing election turnouts and citizens’ disinterest in democracy galvanized the European Commission (EC) to co-fund a set of e-participation pilot projects. During the runtime of the program, and in particular after the last projects ended in 2010, policy makers at European level were keen to know how well this funding program performed. Hence, the EC also initiated a project called MOMENTUM with the aim to monitor and evaluate the progress and impact of the projects. MOMENTUM designed and performed a systematic comparative analysis of the projects. This chapter presents the impact evaluation framework, which is based on methods of evaluation from empirical research, thereby also reflecting programmatic contexts of the projects. The evaluation framework grounds the interplay of elements of a holistic e-participation solution: the participation process, the topics to discuss, the policy supported, and the technology and tools deployed. The authors present results of the evaluation and demonstrate how attention on the interrelations of these issues affect users’ perception and motivation to participate in an e-participation endeavor. Insights show that the method developed can lead to useful and usable impact analysis and evaluation results. The survey results provide valuable clues to the behavioral intention of the civil society to use e-participation tools and applications. These findings provide not only information on whether and how far the monitored projects are successful but also why they succeeded or failed and how they can be improved.

Method and Lessons from Evaluating the Impact of E-Participation Projects in MOMENTUM

2015 ◽  
pp. 470-491
Author(s):  
Maria A. Wimmer ◽  
Melanie Bicking
Keyword(s):  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Methods Of Evaluation ◽  
Funding Program ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Participation Process ◽  
Motivation To Participate ◽  
The Impact

Decreasing election turnouts and citizens' disinterest in democracy galvanized the European Commission (EC) to co-fund a set of e-participation pilot projects. During the runtime of the program, and in particular after the last projects ended in 2010, policy makers at European level were keen to know how well this funding program performed. Hence, the EC also initiated a project called MOMENTUM with the aim to monitor and evaluate the progress and impact of the projects. MOMENTUM designed and performed a systematic comparative analysis of the projects. This chapter presents the impact evaluation framework, which is based on methods of evaluation from empirical research, thereby also reflecting programmatic contexts of the projects. The evaluation framework grounds the interplay of elements of a holistic e-participation solution: the participation process, the topics to discuss, the policy supported, and the technology and tools deployed. The authors present results of the evaluation and demonstrate how attention on the interrelations of these issues affect users' perception and motivation to participate in an e-participation endeavor. Insights show that the method developed can lead to useful and usable impact analysis and evaluation results. The survey results provide valuable clues to the behavioral intention of the civil society to use e-participation tools and applications. These findings provide not only information on whether and how far the monitored projects are successful but also why they succeeded or failed and how they can be improved.

scholarly journals Impact Analysis of Parking Price Adjustment on the Quality of Service of Airport Parking Lots for Light Vehicles

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Cheng Cheng ◽  
Peng Qi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Daily Maximum ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parking Demand

Pricing is a common measure for parking demand management that has been implemented worldwide. However, the impact of parking price on a parking lot’s quality of service is seldom discussed. This study investigated the impacts of a ladder daily maximum fee charging strategy on the quality of service of the Hongqiao International Airport parking lot based on automatic transaction data before and after the strategy was implemented. An evaluation framework considering managers’ and users’ perspectives was designed. The estimation results show that the new price regulation method largely discouraged long-term parking demand and improved the availability of airport parking facilities, especially during long holidays. As a consequence, throughput and income largely increased in the airport, and there were extra time costs during vehicle departures. The price elasticity of parkers with different parking durations was further estimated. The results showed that price sensitivity is relatively inelastic but varies based on parking duration.

scholarly journals The essence of risks of business activity and their assessment with the aim of sediment and disability in management of efficiency and competitiveness development

2018 ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Valentina Aranchiy ◽  
Mykola Іhnatenko
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Economic Methods ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Methods Of Evaluation ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Impact

The subject of the research is to identify the risks of entrepreneurial activity, their types and nature. It also discusses the classification of the main types of risks, the substantiation of evaluation and analysis methods in order to avoid, minimize or neutralize to ensure the efficiency and competitiveness of enterprises. The purpose of the work is to identify the business risks, their content, the classification of species, the substantiation of the leading methods of evaluation and analysis in order to avoid and minimize and on this basis – ensuring the efficiency and competitiveness of the operation and development of enterprises. The methodological basis of the article became the main methodological provisions of the enterprise's economy, regulatory and legislative acts on the development of entrepreneurial activity, general scientific and special economic methods of cognition. Among them are generalization, grouping, extrapolation, method of comparative analysis, statistical, expert estimations, mathematical forecasting and programming. Results of work. In the process of writing the article, the essence of entrepreneurial risks was identified, their types were identified, classification and grouping according to the types and areas of manifestation were made. This gave an opportunity to substantiate the methods of their further analysis and evaluation. In turn, taking into account and preventing risks on this basis will allow to ensure the tactics and strategy of the development of enterprises with proper efficiency and competitiveness. The field of application of results. The results of the study can be used in the theory and practice of business risk management. Risk assessment and analysis will be appropriate in the economy, in the finances of enterprises, in the analysis of entrepreneurial activity, in developing strategies for its development in the future. Conclusions. Risks of entrepreneurial activity have different spheres of manifestation and degree of influence on it. They can be evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively. In addition, the proposed grouping and classifications allow, in a certain way, to identify managerial decisions, at least in terms of spheres of manifestation. In general, assessing the types and extent of the impact of business risks and their inclusion in tactical and strategic management will be a significant factor in ensuring the efficiency and competitiveness of enterprises in the long run.

scholarly journals Understanding the diversification and specialization of farm businesses

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 269 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. HANSSON ◽  
R. FERGUSON ◽  
C. OLOFSSON
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
Total Revenue ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Farm Business ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Influence Behavior ◽  
Business Structure

This paper addresses the development of farm businesses in Sweden, 2000–2007, with regard to their specialization in single farm enterprises, diversified agricultural production and diversification with new income-generating ventures. Furthermore, regression analysis is used to study the impact of farm characteristics on the observed specialization and diversification. The study is based a panel data set of about 900 farms participating in the Swedish Agricultural Economics Survey. Results show that farms are increasingly engaging in diversified activities, though in most firms these activities make only minor contributions to total revenue. Results also show that the degrees of specialization and diversification are influenced by characteristics of firms’ business structure, financial and demographic conditions. These results contribute to the understanding of farm business development, as well as show the need for policy makers and farm advisors to consider the differences between farms pursuing different development strategies in their efforts to influence behavior.;

The Effect of Childhood ADD/ADHD on Parental Workforce Participation

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 487-492
Author(s):  
Emily J. Callander ◽  
Faith Allele ◽  
Hayley Roberts ◽  
William Guinea ◽  
Daniel B. Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Attention Deficit Disorder ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Workforce Participation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

Objective: This research aimed to examine the impact of attention deficit disorder (ADD)/ADHD in children on parental labor force participation across different child age groups. Method: This study utilized a longitudinal, quantitative analyses approach. All data were collected from Wave 6 of the Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) survey. Results: After adjusting for various confounders, mothers whose children were 10/11 years old and had been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD were significantly more likely to be out of the labor force compared with those mothers whose child had not been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. The impact was more pronounced for single mothers. No significant influence on paternal labor force participation was found. Conclusion: In assessing the cost-effectiveness of interventions for ADD/ADHD, policy makers and researchers must consider the long-term social and economic effects of ADD/ADHD on maternal workforce participation when considering costs and outcomes.

scholarly journals Analysis and Evaluation of COVID-19 Web Applications for Health Professionals: Challenges and Opportunities

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 466
Author(s):  
Hamid Mukhtar ◽  
Hafiz Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Khan ◽  
Nasim Ullah
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Online Web

The multidisciplinary nature of the work required for research in the COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for health professionals in the battle against the virus. They need to be equipped with novel tools, applications, and resources—that have emerged during the pandemic—to gain access to breakthrough findings; know the latest developments; and to address their specific needs for rapid data acquisition, analysis, evaluation, and reporting. Because of the complex nature of the virus, healthcare systems worldwide are severely impacted as the treatment and the vaccine for COVID-19 disease are not yet discovered. This leads to frequent changes in regulations and policies by governments and international organizations. Our analysis suggests that given the abundance of information sources, finding the most suitable application for analysis, evaluation, or reporting, is one of such challenges. However, health professionals and policy-makers need access to the most relevant, reliable, trusted, and latest information and applications that can be used in their day-to-day tasks of COVID-19 research and analysis. In this article, we present our analysis of various novel and important web-based applications that have been specifically developed during the COVID-19 pandemic and that can be used by the health professionals community to help in advancing their analysis and research. These applications comprise search portals and their associated information repositories for literature and clinical trials, data sources, tracking dashboards, and forecasting models. We present a list of the minimally essential online, web-based applications to serve a multitude of purposes, from hundreds of those developed since the beginning of the pandemic. A critical analysis is provided for the selected applications based on 17 features that can be useful for researchers and analysts for their evaluations. These features make up our evaluation framework and have not been used previously for analysis and evaluation. Therefore, knowledge of these applications will not only increase productivity but will also allow us to explore new dimensions for using existing applications with more control, better management, and greater outcome of their research. In addition, the features used in our framework can be applied for future evaluations of similar applications and health professionals can adapt them for evaluation of other applications not covered in this analysis.

scholarly journals Análisis de la integración del enfoque de género en las políticas de cooperación al desarrollo: El caso de las instituciones de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 941
Author(s):  
Idoye Zabala Errazti ◽  
Maria José Martinez Herrero ◽  
Irati Labaien Egiguren
Keyword(s):  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Decentralized Cooperation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pais Vasco

This article focuses on the analysis of the integration of gender perspective in planning documents of development cooperation policies and more specifically, in Spanish decentralized cooperation policies. For this analysis, we suggest a framework in order to evaluate the design and the coherence of these policies, without taking into account the result and the impact analysis of them, but considering the limitations of the implementation of gender perspective of the main international co-operation organizations, the characteristics of Decentralized Co-operation and the need of an evaluation framework for these policies. Afterwards, we apply this framework for evaluating co-operation policies of the major public institutions of the Basque Country.

Place-based, Spatially Blind, or Both? Challenges in Estimating the Impacts of Modern Development Policies

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attila Varga
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Human Capital Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Infrastructure Investments ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
The Impact

Two modern approaches to development policy have recently evolved and disputed with each other, namely, the space-neutral and the place-based approaches. Perhaps the most notable conceptual development common in these modern approaches is a strong awareness of the key role of geography in policies targeting aggregate economic growth. Thus, it became clear in the new policy thinking that the impact of countries’ structural policies largely depends not only on the specific instruments (e.g., human capital development, infrastructure investments, and small- and medium-sized enterprises support) but also on the concrete patterns in which these instruments are deployed geographically. It is suggested in this article that macroeconomic models that integrate geography could usefully help policy makers in their choice among different complex geography-instrument mixes. I survey the most important modeling challenges raised by the two modern economic development approaches. To illustrate how economic models can respond to these challenges, I briefly introduce the Geographic Macro and Regional (GMR)–Europe model. To complete the illustration with a practical example, an impact analysis of a space-neutral–place-based policy mix implemented in regions of the European Union (EU) is presented. It is found that promoting research excellence in leading agglomerations combined with human capital development in the rest of the regions in Europe could result in a sustained positive gross domestic product impact of EU Framework Programs at the aggregate EU level. Nevertheless, it is also important to emphasize that the aggregate impact masks marked regional differences.

Markets for Purchased Farm Inputs

2005 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
E. Serova ◽  
O. Shick
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Farm Inputs

Russian policy makers argue that agriculture suffers from decapitalization due to financial constraints faced by producers. This view is the basis for the national agricultural policy, which emphasizes reimbursement of input costs and substitutes government and quasi-government organizations for missing market institutions. The article evaluates the availability of purchased farm inputs, the efficiency of their use, the main problems in the emergence of market institutions, and the impact of government policies. The analysis focuses on five groups of purchased inputs: farm machinery, fertilizers, fuel, seeds, and animal feed. The information sources include official statistics and data from two original surveys.

Managing Service Quality, Food Quality, Price Fairness and Customer Retention: A Holistic Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ammar Ahmed ◽  
Rafat Naseer ◽  
Muhammad Asadullah ◽  
Hadia Khan
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Customer Retention ◽  
Price Fairness ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Restaurant Management ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Propositions ◽  
The Impact

In this competitive environment, organizations strive to satisfy their customer by providing best quality service at affordable and fair prices with a view to enhance their revenues. To achieve the objective of revenue maximization, organizations strive to identify the factors that help them in retaining their customers. Drawing from the signalling theory of marketing, the current study proposes a novel conceptual model representing the impact of service quality with food quality and price fairness on customer retention in restaurant sector of Pakistan. The paper underlines an important arena of knowledge for academicians as well as organizational scientists on the subject. On the basis of literature available on the variables understudy, the present study forwards eight research propositions worthy of urgent scholarly attention. The conceptualized model of the present article can also be viewed significant in unleashing further avenues for the restaurant management entities, policy makers and future researchers in the domain of managing in the service sector businesses.

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