TY - CHAP
T1 - Processing Public Input
AU - Lees-Marshment, Jennifer
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In practice, all around the world government resources are often channelled into collecting public input without thought being given as to what happens with the data, leaving government staff frustrated, and reducing the chance for politicians to seriously consider it. Even if public input is collected effectively and does produce usable outputs, if the data are not handled in a way that gets them to political leaders in an appropriate way, their potential influence is curtailed. Therefore, how public input is processed is a fundamental aspect to making public input into government effective. Few — if any — academic articles or books focus on how to deal with the information collected, and this is another of the clear gaps in the theory and practice of public input. This chapter will address that gap by proposing a range of important principles to processing public input: see Figure 5.1.
AB - In practice, all around the world government resources are often channelled into collecting public input without thought being given as to what happens with the data, leaving government staff frustrated, and reducing the chance for politicians to seriously consider it. Even if public input is collected effectively and does produce usable outputs, if the data are not handled in a way that gets them to political leaders in an appropriate way, their potential influence is curtailed. Therefore, how public input is processed is a fundamental aspect to making public input into government effective. Few — if any — academic articles or books focus on how to deal with the information collected, and this is another of the clear gaps in the theory and practice of public input. This chapter will address that gap by proposing a range of important principles to processing public input: see Figure 5.1.
U2 - 10.1057/9781137017789_5
DO - 10.1057/9781137017789_5
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781349437191
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
SP - 114
EP - 138
BT - The Ministry of Public Input
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -