Towards Decision Support for Participatory Democracy

David Rios Insua, Gregory E. Kersten, Jesus Rios and Carlos Grima
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David Rios Insua: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Royal Academy of Sciences
Gregory E. Kersten: Concordia University
Jesus Rios: Concordia University
Carlos Grima: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Chapter 66 in Handbook on Decision Support Systems 2, 2008, pp 651-685 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In many parts of the world there is growing demand for participation in public policy decision making. This demand could be satisfied by the design and deployment of Webbased group decision support systems to aid large groups of, possibly unsophisticated, users in participating in such decisions. After describing several mechanisms for participatory democracy, we provide a framework for decision support in this area and describe decision support functions that could be implemented in such a framework. We illustrate the ideas with a specific system to support participatory budget elaboration through the Web. Several practical issues are discussed along the way.

Keywords: Decision Support; Discussion Forum; Participatory Process; Direct Democracy; Social Choice Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-48716-6_30

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