Normative and Instrumental Perspectives on Public Participation

NORMATIVE AND INSTRUMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Citizen Summits in Washington, D.C

A normative literature in political science and public administration calls for enhanced citizen participation in public decisions. However, this approach overlooks the environment that shapes administrative behavior, an oversight likely to hamper reform efforts targeted at achieving the normative goals of participation. The administrative perspective is important because public managers shape ...

An Archive, Public Participation and a Performance: Five Perspectives

Investigating the Effect of Public Participation on Crisis Management Performance

Background and Objectives: In todays changing environmental conditions, nations and organizations have to face with different crisis. Identifying factors affecting the success of crisis management activities will be helpful. Among affecting factors, public participation is one that can affect the success of crisis performance and its research aims to investigate it. Method: This applied researc...

Cognitive success: instrumental justifications of normative systems of reasoning

In the first part of the paper (sec. 1-4), I argue that Elqayam and Evan's (2011) distinction between normative and instrumental conceptions of cognitive rationality corresponds to deontological vs. teleological accounts in meta-ethics. I suggest that Elqayam and Evans' distinction be replaced by the distinction between a-priori intuition-based vs. a-posteriori success-based accounts of cogniti...

Plotting public participation on Indonesia's Internet

Focusing on public access rather than business or commercial applications, this article seeks to answer some fundamental questions about Internet use in Indonesia: How many people use the Net? Where and how do they gain access? Who facilitates this: government or private industry? What strategies are expanding public access? In answering such questions, the article examines Internet use as a so...