Engaging Citizens in Policy Making

Edited by Tiina Randma-Liiv, Professor of Public Policy, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Veiko Lember, Senior Research Fellow in Public Management and Policy, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Visiting Professor, Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium

Contents:

1 Engaging citizens in policy making: The potential and challenges of
e-participation 1
Veiko Lember, Tiina Randma-Liiv and Kadi Maria Vooglaid
2 Framework for analysis of the management and organization of
e-participation initiatives 11
Tiina Randma-Liiv, Kadi Maria Vooglaid and Veiko Lember

PART I E-PARTICIPATION INITIATIVES ON NATIONAL LEVEL
3 We asked, you said, we did: Assessing the drivers and effectiveness of
an e-participation practice in Scotland 26
Benedetta Bellò and James Downe
4 Parlement & Citoyens in France: An e-participation platform
connecting legislators and citizens for collaborative policy design 40
Samuel Defacqz and Claire Dupuy
5 (e-)Participation and propaganda: The mix of old and new technology in
Hungarian national consultations 56
Sara Svensson, Andras Molnar and Agnes Batory
6 Enhancing law-making efficiency, public value or both: Case study of
e-participation platform in Slovakia 71
Matúš Sloboda, Katarina Staroňová and Alexandra Poláková Suchalová
7 Participatory law-making in the digital age: The case of the e-public
consultation platform in Croatia 91
Petra Đurman, Anamarija Musa and Ivan Koprić
8 The Estonian Citizens’ Initiative Portal: Drivers and barriers of
institutionalized e-participation 104
Kadi Maria Vooglaid and Tiina Randma-Liiv
9 From online participation to policy making: Exploring the success
behind Latvian legislative crowdsourcing platform MyVoice 120
Visvaldis Valtenbergs
10 Public online consultation in Lithuania: A political declaration or the
real empowerment of citizens? 136
Rasa Bortkevičiūtė and Vitalis Nakrošis

PART II E-PARTICIPATION INITIATIVES ON LOCAL LEVEL
11 Decide Madrid: A Spanish best practice on e-participation 152
Vicente Pina, Lourdes Torres, Sonia Royo and Jaime Garcia-Rayado
12 The pursuit of legitimacy as a learning process: A case of local
e-participation in Sweden 166
Alina Ostling
13 Citizens’ engagement in policy making: Insights from an e-participation
platform in Leuven, Belgium 180
A. Paula Rodriguez Müller
14 The implementation of e-participation platforms in Ireland: The case of
OpenConsult 196
Bernadette Connaughton
15 How organizational factors shape e-participation: Lessons from the
German one-stop participation portal meinBerlin 209
Andree Pruin
16 e-Participation in Austria: Digital Agenda Vienna 225
Noella Edelmann and Bettina Höchtl
17 Connecting participation and e-participation: The use of ICT in the
participatory initiatives of Brno 244
David Špaček
18 Management and organization of e-participation: Synthesis from 15
European initiatives 260
Tiina Randma-Liiv and Veiko Lember

Index 280