Public Participation in Nonlegislative Rulemaking

Regulation Room: How the Internet Improves Public Participation in Rulemaking

How the Internet improves public participation in rulemaking. Cornell eRulemaking Initiative (CeRI) designed and operated Regulation Room, a pilot project that provides an online environment for people and groups to learn about, discuss, and react to selected proposed federal rules. The project is a unique collaboration between CeRI academic researchers and the government. The U.S. Department o...

Transparency and Public Participation in the Rulemaking Process

Enhancing Public Access to Online Rulemaking Information

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Active learning for e-rulemaking: public comment categorization

We address the e-rulemaking problem of reducing the manual labor required to analyze public comment sets. In current and previous work, for example, text categorization techniques have been used to speed up the comment analysis phase of e-rulemaking — by classifying sentences automatically, according to the rule-specific issues [2] or general topics that they address[7, 8]. Manually annotated d...

Urban sustainable development from public participation in urban management

Urban management in any context has a different economic, social and political structure, which is in harmony with the existing models of organization. In spite of these differences, in order to reach a sustainable urban development, several different conferences should be referred to. In the “Brundtland Commission 1987” about urban sustainable development these definitions have been given: “pr...