Public preferences for governing AI technology: Comparative evidence

Cognitive Biases in Governing: Technology Preferences in Election Administration

Cognitive biases are heuristics that shape individual preferences and decisions in a way at odds with means-end rationality. The effects of cognitive biases on governing are underexplored. We study how election administrators’ cognitive biases shape their preferences for e-voting technology using data from a national survey of local election officials. The Technology Acceptance Model, which emp...

Public Boards Governing Corporately

Harnessing the Potential to Quantify Public Preferences for Healthcare Priorities through Citizens’ Juries

Despite progress towards greater public engagement, questions about the optimal approach to access public preferences remain unanswered. We review two increasingly popular methods for engaging the public in healthcare priority-setting and determining their preferences; the Citizens’ Jury (CJ) and Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE). We discuss the theoretical framework from which each method is de...

Factors Affecting the Preferences of Primigravida Women for Choosing a Public Hospital

Introduction: Finding the factors affecting patients’ tendency to a hospital, can improve the health system. The purpose of this study was to recognize the factors affecting primigravidas’ preferences to select a public hospital, in order to determine the correlation on these preferences. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 220 p...

Public preferences for engagement in Health Technology Assessment decision-making: protocol of a mixed methods study

BACKGROUND Much attention in recent years has been given to the topic of public engagement in health technology assessment (HTA) decision-making. HTA organizations spend substantial resources and time on undertaking public engagement, and numerous studies have examined challenges and barriers to engagement in the decision-making process however uncertainty remains as to optimal methods to incor...