I spent the last week traveling through Eastern Canada with Bang the Table’s North American Engagement team and our Co-Founder and Impact Lead, Crispin Butteriss, PhD. We got together to share ideas, plan for the future, and hear a series of presentations on Crispin’s emerging ideas and concepts regarding the practice of digital deliberation and digital first […]
Low performing public participation functions as a self-fulfilling prophecy in large transportation projects, find Ted Grossardt and Keiron Bailey.
Helen Pallet reviews organisational learning around UK’s Sciencewise program, a public participation body appointed to promote dialogue in science policy.
There’s more to evaluation than finding out if a project has been a success or failure. It can also say something about evaluation design.
Public participation evaluation frameworks delineates 14 frameworks in the USA to better comprehend engagement methodologies.
A worldwide surge in the use of public participation tools has seen the rise of the ‘participation professional’.
How do women participate in group discussions? Are their voices heard? Do they have a fair say in deliberation outcomes? Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg’s pathbreaking experimental research looks at gender in decision-making groups.
Where satire attempts to undermine autocracy and prejudice; the worst of fake news feeds into prejudices and seeks to create community outrage and undermine public confidence.
Second in our series of Engagement Primers, 54 international participation models to better map public participation in practice and theory.
Technology can connect urban environments. But, that’s not all it takes to build a resilient smart city. Citizen engagement has a critical role to play, writes Sam Musa.
Creating meaning in the practice of public participation in governance is addressed by Kathryn S. Quick and John M. Bryson in ‘Handbook on Theories of Governance’, edited by Jacob Torbing and Chris Ansell.
Tina Nabatchi and Matt Leighninger offer a comprehensive exploration of public participation theory and practice in their new book, ‘Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy’.
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