This chapter introduces nine principles to ensure quality of citizen participation processes. Methods outlined in these guidelines rely on good practice their quality: purpose, accountability, transparency, inclusiveness and accessibility, integrity, privacy, information, resources, evaluation.

E-participation describes the utilization of ICT means and social media in order to further develop citizen participation in the information society. Especially the youth is using respective applications and platforms quite naturally for communication and interaction. In an ongoing e-participation pilot project in a Swiss municipality an e-participation platform has been developed. After presen...

Online participation is becoming an increasingly common means for individuals to contribute to citizen science projects, yet such projects often rely on only a small fraction of participants to make the majority of contributions. Here, we investigate a means for influencing the performance of citizen scientists towards enhancing overall participation. Building on prior social comparison researc...

The precautionary principle is increasingly discussed in debates about threats to health and the environment, particularly when government actions might inhibit free trade. It is gaining recognition as an overarching principle of decision-making, one that underlies efforts for sustainable development. Pronouncements about the precautionary principle have focused generally on the responsibility ...

In order to balance between citizen and agency aspects’ importance and visibility in public e-service development, the question how to involve different stakeholders is often raised. However, identifying and analyzing several internal as well as external stakeholders in relation to e-government development raises some ethical questions: Who should participate and who should not? For what reason...

Taking Taipei City Mayor’s Email-box (TCME) as a case, this study begins with using Buchanan and Tullock’s renown conceptual model of “calculus of consent” to depict the complex relation between citizen participation, e-government and public management. In the model, democratization means more citizens with consent on government’s actions via participation. However, the more citizens participat...

Many Blue Shield Plans offer participation agreements to physicians that are structurally similar to the participation provisions of Medicaid programs. This paper examines physicians' participation decisions in two such Blue Shield Plans where the participation agreements were on an all-or-nothing basis. The major results show that increases in the Plans' reasonable fees or fee schedules signif...

Citizen participation is a cornerstone of democracy in America. Among the important ways in which citizens participate are: voting, the most basic right and responsibility of every citizen; engaging with government to help establish good policies and to solve public problems and volunteering to help one’s community and those in need. These are time-honored values of citizenship taught in our sc...

Since 1950, Alberta Agriculture has supervised and coordinated a rural-based Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) control program that has essentially kept the province rat-free. Success is achieved by eliminating invading rats within a control zone 600 km long and 30 km wide along the eastern border of the province. A systematic detection and eradication system is used throughout the zone to keep ra...