Assessing the Costs of Public Participation: A Case Study of Two Online Participation Mechanisms

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 179-199

  Wang, XiaoHu ^a   Bryer, Thomas A ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen participation; civic engagement; participation cost; public participation; public participation cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873660455     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: 15523357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0275074012438727     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Andersson E.,Fennell E.,Shahrokh T.Making the case for public engagement: How to demonstrate the value of consumer input. London, UK: Involve; 2011:.
2. Arnstein S. R.A ladder of citizen participation.Journal of the American Institute of Planners. 1969;35:216-224.
3. Babbie E.The basics of social research. 2008). The basics of social research (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.Belmont, CA: Wadsworth; 2008:.
4. Baker W. H.,Addams H. L.,Davis B.Critical factors for enhancing municipal public hearings.Public Administration Review. 2005;65:490-499.
5. Balla S. J.Legislative success and failure and participation in rule making.Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 2000;10:633-653.
6. Banerjee A. V.A simple model of herd behavior.Quarterly Journal of Economics. 1992;107:797-817.
7. Barnes M.,Newman J.,Knops A.,Sullivan H.Constituting "the public" in public participation.Public Administration. 2003;81 (2): 379-399.
8. Beierle T. C.Using social goals to evaluate public participation in environmental decisions.Review of Policy Research. 1999;16 (3-4): 75-103.
9. Bryer T. A.Toward a relevant agenda for a responsive public administration.Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 2007a;17:479-500.
10. Bryer T. A.Collaborative design of citizen engagement in city and county comprehensive planning: Teaching case and simulation competition in collaborative public management, collaborative governance, and collaborative problem solving, program on the analysis and resolution of conflicts. Syracuse, NY: Maxwell School of Syracuse University; 2007b:.
11. Bryer T. A.Explaining responsiveness in collaboration: Administrator and citizen role Perceptions.Public Administration Review. 2009;69:271-283.
12. Bryer T. A.The costs of democratization: Social media adaptation challenges within government agencies.Administrative Theory & Praxis. 2011;33:341-361.
13. Bryer T. A.,Zavattaro S. M.Social media and public administration: Theoretical dimensions and introduction to symposium. Administrative Theory & Praxis; 2011; 2011.325.
14. Coase R. H.The problem of social cost.Journal of Law & Economics. 1960;3:1-44.
15. Cobb R. W.,Elder C. D.Participation in American politics: The dynamics of agenda-building. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1983:.
16. Cohen N.Technical assistance for citizen participation: A case study of New York City's environmental planning process.American Review of Public Administration. 1995;25 (2): 119-135.
17. Cooper T. L.The hidden price tag: Participation costs and health planning.American Journal of Public Health. 1979;69:368-374.
18. Cooper T. L.Civic engagement in the twenty-first century: Toward a scholarly and practical agenda.Public Administration Review. 2005;65:534-535.
19. Cooper T. L.,Bryer T. A.William Robertson: Exemplar of politics and public management rightly understood.Public Administration Review. 2007;67:816-824.
20. Cooper T. L.,Bryer T. A.,Meek J. W.Citizen-centered collaborative public management.Public Administration Review, 66. 2006;:76-88.
21. Creighton J. L.The public involvement manual. Cambridge, MA: Abt; 1981:.
22. Cupps S. D.Emerging problems of citizen participation.Public Administration Review. 1977;37:478-487.
23. Edelman M.The symbolic uses of politics. Champaign: University of Illinois Press; 1985:.
24. Fink R.Guide to cost management. Brinker B., ed. New York, NY: John Wiley; 2000:305-318.
25. Finkler S. A.Financial management for public, health, and not-for-profit organizations. 2005). Financial management for public, health, and not-for-profit organizations (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall; 2005:.
26. Friesecke F. Paper presented at FIG Working Week 2011; 2011Marrakech, Morocco; 2011.
27. Franklin A. L.,Ebdon C.Are we all touching the same camel? Exploring a model participation in budgeting.American Review of Public Administration. 2005;35 (2): 168-185.
28. Frederickson G. H.Toward a new public administration: The Minnowbrook perspective. Marinia F., ed. Scranton, PA: Chandler; 1971:309-331.
29. Fung A.Varieties of participation in complex governance.Public Administration Review. 2006;66 (S1): 66-75.
30. Gill J.,Meier K. J.Ralph's pretty-good grocery versus Ralph's super market: Separating excellent agencies from the good ones.Public Administration Review. 2001;61 (1): 9-17.
31. Handley D. M.,Howell-Moroney M.Ordering stakeholder relationships and citizen participation: Evidence from the community development block grant program.Public Administration Review. 2010;70:601-609.
32. Hayward T.Practitioner's perspective-Managing for 2020: An exploration of role interdependence and balance.Public Administration Review. 2010;70 (S1): 129-136.
33. Heinrich C.,Fournier E.Dimensions of publicness and performance in substance abuse treatment organizations.Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2004;23 (1): 49-70.
34. Hill C.,Lynn L. E.Governance and public management: An introduction.Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2004;23 (1): 3-11.
35. Houston G. F.,Humphries R.,Liebenberg I.Public participation in democratic governance in South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Blue Weaver; 2002:.
36. Hyman D. N.Public finance: A contemporary application of theory to practice. 2008). Public finance: A contemporary application of theory to practice (9th ed.). Mason, OH: Thomson South-Western.Mason, OH: Thomson South-Western; 2008:.
37. Innes J. E.,Booher D. E.Reframing public participation: Strategies for the 21st century.Planning Theory & Practice. 2004;5:419-436.
38. Involve. (2005). The true costs of public participation. Retrieved from http://www.involve.org.uk/the-true-costs-of-public-participation/.
39. Irvin R. A.,Stansbury J.Citizen participation in decision making: Is it worth the effort?.Public Administration Review. 2004;64 (1): 55-65.
40. Kathi P. C.,Cooper T. L.Democratizing the administrative state-Connecting neighborhood councils and city agencies.Public Administration Review. 2005;65:559-567.
41. Keeley M.Impartiality and participant-interest theories of organizational effectiveness.Administrative Science Quarterly. 1984;29 (1): 1-25.
42. Key V. O.Public opinion and American democracy. New York, NY: A. A. Knopf; 1961:.
43. King C.,Stivers C.Government is us. King C.Stivers C., ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; 1998:3-18.
44. Kuran T.,Sunstein C. R.Availability cascades and risk regulation.Stanford Law Review. 1999;51:683-768.
45. Lowndes V.,Pratchett L.,Stoker G.Trends in public participation: Part 1-Local government perspectives.Public Administration. 2001;79 (1): 205-222.
46. Lijphart A.Unequal participation: Democracy's unsolved dilemma.American Political Science Review. 1997;91 (1): 1-14.
47. Lindblom C. E.The science of "muddling through.".Public Administration Review. 1959;19 (2): 79-88.
48. Lukensmeyer C.,Torres L. H.Public deliberation: A manager's guide to public deliberation. Washington, DC: IBM Center for the Business of Government; 2006:.
49. Lynn L. E.,Heinrich C. J.,Hill C.Studying governance and public management: Challenges and prospects.Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory. 2000;10:233-261.
50. Langton S.Citizen participation in America. Langton S., ed. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books; 1978:1-12.
51. McCloskey M.The skeptic: Collaboration has its limits.High Country News. 1996;28 (9): 7.
52. Morrell M. E.Citizens' evaluations of participatory democratic procedures: Normative theory meets empirical science.Political Research Quarterly. 1999;52:293-322.
53. Noveck B. S.Wiki government: How technology can make government better, democracy stronger, and citizens more powerful. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press; 2009:.
54. Patterson S. C.,Caldeira G. A.Getting out the vote: Participation in gubernatorial elections.American Political Science Review. 1983;77:675-689.
55. Roberts N.Public deliberation in an age of direct citizen participation.American Review of Public Administration. 2004;34:315-353.
56. Sanoff H.Community participation methods in design and planning. New York, NY: Wiley; 2000:.
57. Selznick P.TVA and the grass roots: A study of politics and organization. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1949:.
58. Shirky C.Here comes everybody: The power of organizing without organizations. New York, NY: Penguin; 2008:.
59. Simon H.Administrative decision making.Public Administration Review. 1965;25:31-37.
60. Snider J. H.Deterring fake public participation.International Journal of Public Participation. 2010;4 (1): 89-103.
61. TharpC. B. (2003). Who and why: Los Angeles' neighborhood councils and the prevalence of socio-economic status, self-interest, and public interest in civic participation (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
62. Wagenaar H.Governance, complexity, and democratic participation.American Review of Public Administration. 2007;37 (1): 17-50.
63. Walters L.,Aydelotte J.,Miller J.Putting more public in policy analysis.Public Administration Review. 2000;60:349-359.
64. Wang X.Performance analysis for public and nonprofit organizations. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett; 2010:.
65. Warren M.Democratic theory and self-transformation.American Political Science Review. 1992;86 (1): 8-23.
66. Weber M.Economy and society: An outline of interpretive sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1978:.
67. Wildavsky A.Budgeting: A comparative theory of budgetary processes. 1997). Budgeting: A comparative theory of budgetary processes (2nd ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers; 1997:.
68. Williamson O. E.Public and private bureaucracies: A transaction cost economics perspective.Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 1999;15 (1): 306-342.