Closing the Evaluation Gap in e-Participation Research and Practice

Herbert Kubicek () and Georg Aichholzer ()
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Herbert Kubicek: University of Bremen
Georg Aichholzer: Austrian Academy of Sciences

Chapter 2 in Evaluating e-Participation, 2016, pp 11-45 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter points out the upswing of citizen participation, the emergence of a broad range of participation forms, and the high expectations of the potentials of e-participation. Against this background, a twofold evaluation gap is identified: a lack of acknowledged success criteria and indicators and a lack of empirical studies analyzing, differentiating, and comparing ecologies of e-participation instead of undertaking isolated case studies. The second part reviews major types of evaluation criteria and different conceptual frameworks for evaluating e-participation processes. It concludes with a twofold “relativity theory” of evaluation and proposes an adapted Input–Activities–Output–Outcome–Impact model for the comparative evaluation of e-participation through a quasi-experimental field study design.

Keywords: European Union; Success Factor; Public Participation; Success Criterion; Citizen Participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25403-6_2

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