Title

Public Participation In Regulatory Decision-Making

Keywords

e-government; public participation; regulation

Abstract

Regulations.gov is an award-winning government Web site that has democratized the federal rulemaking process by making it easier for citizens to search, read, and comment on proposed rules. Comments citizens have submitted in relation to three proposals are analyzed. The issues in each case are classified as low salience/high complexity, high salience/high complexity, and high salience/low complexity, respectively. Qualitative analysis of the comments across cases finds that they tend to be emotional, illogical, and lacking in credibility. It is suggested that if the costs of better preparing citizens to be effective participants in the regulatory decision-making process are not acceptable, the democratization experiment might best be terminated. © 2013 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

12-1-2013

Publication Title

Public Performance and Management Review

Volume

37

Issue

2

Number of Pages

263-279

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.2753/PMR1530-9576370204

Socpus ID

84888622653 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84888622653

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