衡量政策效果:城市层面的在线参与

IF 3.1 3区管理学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Online Information Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 DOI:10.3224/DMS.V14I1.10

Julia Schwanholz, Lavinia Zinser, Johannes Hindemith

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摘要

在网络参与平台上预先讨论和协调的公民决策，会产生任何政策效应吗?本文在探索性研究中探讨了这个问题。考虑到参与和政策效果的理论概念，在德国下萨克森州的四个城市对LiquidFeedback平台进行了调查。共80例，即:例如，当地市或区议会随后考虑的成功的公民倡议，都包括在内容分析中。结果表明，与其他政策相比，关键政策很少转化为具有约束力的政策决定。尽管公民的决策可以产生具有约束力的政策效应，但特别是大型项目，其政策效应却相当分散。然而，对公民来说，分散的政策效应很难是透明的，因此可能会抑制整体参与的意愿。

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Measuring policy effects: online participation on the municipal level

Do citizens' decisions, which are discussed and co-ordinated a priori on online participation platforms, have any policy effects? The article addresses this question in an exploratory study. Taking theoretical concepts of participation and policy effects into account, LiquidFeedback platforms are investigated in four municipalities in Lower Saxony (Germany). A total of 80 cases—i.e., successful citizens’ initiatives that were afterwards considered by local city or district councils—are included in a content analysis. Results show that crucial policies are less often translated into binding policy decisions than other policies. Even though citizens’ decisions can have binding policy effects, large-scale projects, in particular, show rather diffuse policy effects. However, diffuse policy effects are hardly transparent for citizens and could, accordingly, inhibit the willingness to participate altogether.

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Online Information Review 工程技术-计算机：信息系统

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

16.10%

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审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： The journal provides a multi-disciplinary forum for scholars from a range of fields, including information studies/iSchools, data studies, internet studies, media and communication studies and information systems. Publishes research on the social, political and ethical aspects of emergent digital information practices and platforms, and welcomes submissions that draw upon critical and socio-technical perspectives in order to address these developments. Welcomes empirical, conceptual and methodological contributions on any topics relevant to the broad field of digital information and communication, however we are particularly interested in receiving submissions that address emerging issues around the below topics. Coverage includes (but is not limited to): •Online communities, social networking and social media, including online political communication; crowdsourcing; positive computing and wellbeing. •The social drivers and implications of emerging data practices, including open data; big data; data journeys and flows; and research data management. •Digital transformations including organisations’ use of information technologies (e.g. Internet of Things and digitisation of user experience) to improve economic and social welfare, health and wellbeing, and protect the environment. •Developments in digital scholarship and the production and use of scholarly content. •Online and digital research methods, including their ethical aspects.