Incentive Structures for the Adoption of Crowdsourcing in Public Policy: A Bureaucratic Politics Model

Luciana Cingolani () and Tim Hildebrandt
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Luciana Cingolani: Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Tim Hildebrandt: Anstalt für Kommunale Datenverarbeitung in Bayern, 80686 Munich, Germany

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 20, 1-16

Abstract: Collective intelligence paradigms have been increasingly embraced by the public sector as a way to address complex policy challenges. The field is limited, however, by our little, comparative understanding of the political economy factors that create incentives around the adoption of certain types of collective intelligence over others in different organizational settings. This article uses a typology of citizen-sourced open innovation models based on the work of Daren Brabham as well as insights from Elinor Ostrom and Archon Fung, in order to produce a theoretical model of the determinants of crowdsourcing adoption decisions in the public sector. The model derives a political economy analysis that matches various administrative scenarios to different collective intelligence modalities and developments. The insights are illustrated through a number of crowdsourcing initiatives and provide important lessons to practitioners designing such collective challenges.

Keywords: collective intelligence; public administration; open innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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