Different Processes, Different Outcomes? Assessing the Individual-Level Impacts of Public Participation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jo, Suyeon; Nabatchi, Tina
• 署名单位: University of Arizona; Syracuse University; Syracuse University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13272
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 137-151
• 关键词: citizen participation; decision-making; health-care; deliberation; trust; services; coproduction; PERSPECTIVES; governance; designs

摘要

This article empirically investigates the relative efficacy of different direct participation processes. Specifically, it compares the effects of three types of participatory processes (public meetings, focus groups, and citizen juries) on participants' issue awareness, competence, empowerment, and trust in service professionals. The authors hypothesize that all three participatory processes will positively affect these individual outcomes but that the magnitudes of effects will differ across the three processes. Using data front field experiments, the authors test and find general support for the hypotheses. This study contributes to understanding of public participation, particularly in terms of the relationship between participatory design and outcomes.