Article ID: CBB106267662

Assessing Quality of Stakeholder Engagement: From Bureaucracy to Democracy (2017)

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The idea of public or stakeholder engagement in governance of science and technology is widely accepted in many policy and academic research settings. However, this enthusiasm for stakeholder engagement has not necessarily resulted in changes of attitudes toward the role of stakeholders in the dialogue nor to the value of public knowledge, practical experience, and other inputs (like salient questions) vis-à-vis expert knowledge. The formal systems of evaluation of the stakeholder engagement activities are often focused on showing that the method is efficient and works. In this article, we argue that every stakeholder engagement process should be evaluated beyond a simple assessment of the methodology and that the wider context of the stakeholder engagement activity should also be addressed. We evaluate two different stakeholder engagement activities against the existing method evaluation criteria and demonstrate their limitations for assessing the quality of a stakeholder engagement. We argue that these criteria need to be extended so that engagement processes will have a chance to improve not only policies but also their democratic legitimacy.

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Authors & Contributors
Lav R. Varshney
Richard Wolfson
Tom Kane
Nina Frahm
Rechard, Rob P.
Song, Sungsoo
Concepts
Public policy
Democracy
Governance
Citizen participation
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Technology and politics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Tahrir Square
Netherlands
South Africa
Japan
France
Institutions
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Twitter (firm)
European Commission
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