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...

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...

Introduction The Twentieth Century has seen efforts to more directly involve individuals in governmental decision-making. A series of policies and methods to accomplish this generally goes under the name of citizen participation. Two threads of thought underlie the notion of citizen participation, individuals as consumers of government services and individuals as citizens with appropriate right...

Community participation, as one of the basic components of sustainable development in a community. This study aimed to determine patterns of community participation, identify factors associated with their social and civic engagement, and examine the relation between the factors and community engagement patterns. Patterns of citizen participation were determined in social and civic engagements. ...