Designing a participatory process for stakeholder involvement in a societal decision

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 195-210

  Bayley, Clare ^a   French, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision processes; E Democracy; Multi attribute value models; Participation and deliberative democracy; Resource allocation and portfolio decision modelling; Societal decision making; Stakeholder involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349109092     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-007-9076-8     Document Type: Article

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