From a Civic-Tech to a Problem-Centered Approach to Open Government Data: Implementation of Environmental Justice Dashboards

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Fusi, Federica; Zhang, Fengxiu; Liang, Jiaqi
• 署名单位: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; George Mason University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.70000
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: transparency; POLITICS; POLICY; ORGANIZATION; FRAMEWORK; adoption

摘要

This research investigates the configurations of openness and policy conditions influencing the implementation of environmental justice (EJ) open government data (OGD) dashboards across U.S. states. EJ dashboards represent a shift from a civic-tech approach to OGD, which emphasizes the public release of vast amounts of data, to a problem-centered approach where government agencies release and curate selected data to address a policy-specific issue. Because of their differences, problem-centered OGD initiatives require distinct organizational structures and processes to facilitate both data release (openness conditions) and the representation of the problem of interest (policy conditions). Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, this research shows that the implementation of EJ-OGD dashboards responds to either a supply-demand model or a government-driven model. Lack of implementation results from low institutionalization of problem solving or complacency toward EJ issues. Overall, EJ-OGD implementation is supported by an operationalizable problem definition and/or a dedicated administrative structure leading and informing policy-specific data provision.