Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas.

ABSTRACT: As academic and political interest in citizen participation and democratic innovations is growing, the question of their impact on public policy remains essential to assess their genuine contribution to the normative project of democratization. Impact assessments of consultative participatory mechanisms are commonly conducted with a congruency approach-a desk-based research method which assesses impact based on the textual correspondence between a citizen-created idea and public policy documents. This method, however, lacks reliability and uniformity, and this paper therefore seeks to standardize its application and ways to improve the accuracy of its results by proposing two methodological add-ons. First, a sequential impact matrix that considers the preferences of decision-makers before

SUBMITTER: Vrydagh J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8869347 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature