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the workload for the structural implementation of e-democracy: municipal policy issues combined with the policy making cycle and styles of citizenship Bert Mulder | [email protected] Martijn Hartog | [email protected] eSociety Institute | The Hague University

Structural implementation of e democracy - presentation 'networking democracy' cluj-napoca

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the workload for the structural implementation of e-democracy:

municipal policy issues combined with

the policy making cycle and styles of citizenship

Bert Mulder | [email protected] Martijn Hartog | [email protected]

eSociety Institute | The Hague University

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context

main interest:the practical reality of implementing edemocracy

supporting existing municipal democratic procedures

what ‘workload’ would large scale and structural deployment cause?

how many active policy dossiers does a city have?what kind and what complexity?

what audience and what participatory interest?

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research question

how many policy issues are active at one time

how many citizen’s are interested in e-participation

how many policy issues should/could be supported by digital tools

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method

number of policy issues: inventory of all municipal agendas

participatory value: position on a ‘policy making cycle’

citizen’s interest: relate to ‘styles of citizenship’

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municipality of The Hague, the Netherlands (450.000 inhabitants)period: 1 council term - 3 years | issues: 1834 in total / 1223 policy issues

the number of active policy issues

allissues

onagendas

allissues

onagendas

100%

1834

policyissuespolicyissues

67%

1223

207

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participation: distribution of policy issues over policy cycle

Iagendasetting

Iagendasetting

IIpreparation

IIpreparation

IIIdetermination

IIIdetermination

IVexecution

IVexecution

Vmonitoringevaluation

Vmonitoringevaluation

(0)

207

95

597

177

20

334

total: 1223 policy issues

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citizen’s interest in e-participation

4 ‘styles of citizenship’

( outsiders / inactive )dutifull / dependent

pragmatic / conformistsociety critic / responsible

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citizen’s interest in e-participation | styles of citizenship

adaptation of 8 style generic ‘lifestyles model’ in Dutch populationdeveloped for Ministry of the Interior | researched on population of The Hague

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results

municipality of The Hague (450.000)

number of policy issues online | population interested

citizenship style population issues/yr issues/3 years

outsiders (inactive)

dutiful 31.500 (7%) 73 (218)pragmatic 157.500 (35%) 81 (243)society critic 117.700 (26%) 180 (540)

policy issues/yr 306.700 (68%) 250

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conclusion

large scale deployment of edemocracy in the municipality of The Hague would mean

supporting 250 active online democracy dossiers

the questions:

what supporting process?what organization?

what online tools and representation?

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further research

a model for municipalities:finetuning the current model

review mapping using policy cycle / citizenship stylebenchmarking smaller and mdium sized cities

creating general model estimating municipalities ‘workload’ for edemocracy

online democratic dossiers:designing online dossiers

what elements, what form, what quality

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related questions

for all of The Netherlands it might mean 20.000 active policy dossiers online

how do these determine democratic quality?what quality democratic participation is possible?

what design issues are associated with this?

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the workload for the structural implementation of e-democracy:

municipal policy issues combined with

the policy making cycle and styles of citizenship

Bert Mulder | [email protected] Martijn Hartog | [email protected]

eSociety Institute | The Hague University