Post on 14-Jun-2015
description
the workload for the structural implementation of e-democracy:
municipal policy issues combined with
the policy making cycle and styles of citizenship
Bert Mulder | a.w.mulder@hhs.nl Martijn Hartog | m.w.hartog@hhs.nl
eSociety Institute | The Hague University
context
main interest:the practical reality of implementing edemocracy
supporting existing municipal democratic procedures
what ‘workload’ would large scale and structural deployment cause?
how many active policy dossiers does a city have?what kind and what complexity?
what audience and what participatory interest?
research question
how many policy issues are active at one time
how many citizen’s are interested in e-participation
how many policy issues should/could be supported by digital tools
method
number of policy issues: inventory of all municipal agendas
participatory value: position on a ‘policy making cycle’
citizen’s interest: relate to ‘styles of citizenship’
municipality of The Hague, the Netherlands (450.000 inhabitants)period: 1 council term - 3 years | issues: 1834 in total / 1223 policy issues
the number of active policy issues
allissues
onagendas
allissues
onagendas
100%
1834
policyissuespolicyissues
67%
1223
207
participation: distribution of policy issues over policy cycle
Iagendasetting
Iagendasetting
IIpreparation
IIpreparation
IIIdetermination
IIIdetermination
IVexecution
IVexecution
Vmonitoringevaluation
Vmonitoringevaluation
(0)
207
95
597
177
20
334
total: 1223 policy issues
citizen’s interest in e-participation
4 ‘styles of citizenship’
( outsiders / inactive )dutifull / dependent
pragmatic / conformistsociety critic / responsible
citizen’s interest in e-participation | styles of citizenship
adaptation of 8 style generic ‘lifestyles model’ in Dutch populationdeveloped for Ministry of the Interior | researched on population of The Hague
results
municipality of The Hague (450.000)
number of policy issues online | population interested
citizenship style population issues/yr issues/3 years
outsiders (inactive)
dutiful 31.500 (7%) 73 (218)pragmatic 157.500 (35%) 81 (243)society critic 117.700 (26%) 180 (540)
policy issues/yr 306.700 (68%) 250
conclusion
large scale deployment of edemocracy in the municipality of The Hague would mean
supporting 250 active online democracy dossiers
the questions:
what supporting process?what organization?
what online tools and representation?
further research
a model for municipalities:finetuning the current model
review mapping using policy cycle / citizenship stylebenchmarking smaller and mdium sized cities
creating general model estimating municipalities ‘workload’ for edemocracy
online democratic dossiers:designing online dossiers
what elements, what form, what quality
related questions
for all of The Netherlands it might mean 20.000 active policy dossiers online
how do these determine democratic quality?what quality democratic participation is possible?
what design issues are associated with this?
the workload for the structural implementation of e-democracy:
municipal policy issues combined with
the policy making cycle and styles of citizenship
Bert Mulder | a.w.mulder@hhs.nl Martijn Hartog | m.w.hartog@hhs.nl
eSociety Institute | The Hague University