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The Way to Randomized Controlled Trials in Open Government
As I have written before, we may start to see a growing number of studies using randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to assess the validity of claims for transparency and participation. And in fact...
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Petition Growth and Success Rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street Website
This is the kind of research that should be informing the design of ICT mediated initiatives. It also a good example as to why policymakers and practitioners should reach out more to scholars (and...
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Citizen Engagement Improves Access to Public Goods in Mexico
A paper recently published in World Development brings new and fascinating evidence from Mexico of the impact of participatory governance mechanisms on access to services. Below are a few excerpts...
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Open Data and Citizen Engagement – Disentangling the Relationship
[This is a cross-post from Sunlight Foundation’s series OpenGov Conversations, an ongoing discourse featuring contributions from transparency and accountability researchers and practitioners around...
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Rethinking Why People Participate
Having a refined understanding of what leads people to participate is one of the main concerns of those working with citizen engagement. But particularly when it comes to participatory democracy, that...
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References on Evaluation of Citizen Engagement Initiatives
pic by photosteve101 on flickr I have been doing some research on works related to the evaluation of citizen engagement initiatives (technology mediated or not). This is far from exhaustive, but I...
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New IDS Journal – 9 Papers in Open Government
The new IDS Bulletin is out. Edited by Rosemary McGee and Duncan Edwards, this is the first open access version of the well-known journal by the Institute of Development Studies. It brings eight new...
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New Papers Published: FixMyStreet and the World’s Largest Participatory...
Voting in Rio Grande do Sul’s Participatory Budgeting (picture by Anderson Lopes) Here are two new published papers that my colleagues Jon Mellon, Fredrik Sjoberg and myself have been working on. The...
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Catching up (again!) on DemocracySpot
It’s been a while since the last post here. In compensation, it’s not been a bad year in terms of getting some research out there. First, we finally managed to publish “Civic Tech in the Global South:...
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Techniques and Technologies for Mobilizing Citizens: Do They Work?
Techniques for mobilizing citizens to vote in elections have become highly sophisticated in large part thanks to get-out-the-vote (GOTV) research, with fascinating experimental evidence from...
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