Die Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen (kurz: Teilhabesurvey) untersucht die Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen und Beeinträchtigungen in unterschiedlichen Lebensbereichen. Der Teilhabesurvey befragt sowohl Personen in Privathaushalten als auch...

This paper investigates how concurrent national and local elections affect the local political participation and competition. Leveraging a quasi-experimental framework provided by Italy's staggered electoral timing, the paper employs a difference-in-differences design. Estimates reveal that...

We employ "doubly robust" event studies and matching methods to explore whether public participation in Constitution-making can curb political corruption moving forward. Measures of public participation are drawn from the Constitutionalism and Democracy Database (CDD) (Eisenstadt et al., 2015,...

The Local Development Councils (LDCs) feature a significant participatory governance function in local policy development, as local government units (LGUs) are mandated to constitute LDCs with members from civil society organizations (CSOs). While the Department of the Interior and Local...

To provide the tools, resources, research and methodologies to build capacity and good practice in participatory and deliberative democracy in the European Commission and other EU institutions, and across different levels of governance in the EU Member States. Mainstreaming participatory and...

Citizens' e-participation determines the successes and failures of digital government or e-government. However, its results to date have not been satisfactory. IT adoption models dominate previous studies. However, citizens' psychological factors have been overlooked. The field has fallen into...

We exploit education reforms in Sweden and other European countries to estimate the causal effects of longer and modernized compulsory education on civic engagement. In most countries, compulsory education was extended by 1-2 years, and the curricula were reformed to better foster democratic and...

This paper investigates the role of gender bias in artificial intelligence-driven analyses of citizen participation, using data from the 2023 Latinobarómetro Survey. The paper proposes that gender bias-whether societal, data driven, or algorithmic-significantly affects civic engagement. Using...

Purpose - This paper explores how COVID-19 has impacted the shift from public participation by conventional means to e-participation. Specifically, we investigated to what extent COVID-19 has been a driver for electronic participation in community participatory budgeting, which is a kind of...

Im Beitrag wird die Untersuchung der Partizipationslandschaft in Münster als situatives und komplexes Gefüge von sozialen Welten und Arenen im Kontext transformativer Stadtentwicklungspolitik referiert. Diese bilden im Anschluss an die Methodologie der Situationsanalyse nach Adele Clarke den...

We study whether exposure to social movements campaigning against income and gender income inequality shifts individual beliefs about inequality, reshapes preferences for redistribution, and translates into political participation in the UK. Since the Great Recession of the 2010s, the UK has...

Nepal is, according to its constitution, among the world's most decentralized countries, with a long and complex tradition of local-level public participation. This paper traces the evolution of Nepal's modern participatory institutions, examining the extent to which they are "induced" by...

Im Beitrag wird die Untersuchung der Partizipationslandschaft in Münster als situatives und komplexes Gefüge von sozialen Welten und Arenen im Kontext transformativer Stadtentwicklungspolitik referiert. Diese bilden im Anschluss an die Methodologie der Situationsanalyse nach Adele Clarke den...

We study whether exposure to social movements campaigning against income and gender income inequality shifts individual beliefs about inequality, reshapes preferences for redistribution, and translates into political participation in the UK. Since the Great Recession of the 2010s, the UK has...

Die dringende Transformation unseres Energiesystems hin zu einer nachhaltigen Infrastruktur der Daseinsvorsorge scheitert in der regionalen Umsetzung regelmäßig an raumbezogenen und gesellschaftlichen Anforderungen des ländlichen Raums. In diesem Beitrag werden am Beispiel eines...

Citizen participation has played an increasingly relevant role in spatial planning and development aiming to shape sustainable and innovative processes since the 1970s. Nevertheless, analogue participation is associated with various problems, such as social selectivity and a loss of civic trust...

Schon heute gilt Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) als betrieblicher Wertschöpfungsfaktor, von dem sich Unternehmen neue Impulse für bestehende Prozesse und Geschäftsmodelle versprechen. Während der derzeitige Diskurs vor allem technische Möglichkeiten und Anwendungsfälle in den Blick nimmt,...

In our paper, we discuss some insights from our work in the regional Centre of Competence of Artificial Intelligence (KARL), which deals with the implementation and application of Artificial Intelligence in working and learning environments. We present a conceptual framework that we have...

To address today's grand challenges, socio-technical transitions need to be designed in different sectors (e.g., agriculture). Technology assessment (TA) is a valuable tool to identify interactions and consequences of transition processes, but it requires an appropriate assessment system to...

Women's political participation is essential for robust democratic governance. Despite significant historical progress, women around the world continue to be marginalized in politics and decision-making processes due to persistent structural, cultural, and institutional inequalities. In times of...

Cities and regions are at the heart of the so-called ''deliberative wave'', with many of them developing initiatives aiming at engaging citizens in participatory and deliberative practices. Since March 2016, the CoR has been active in the Reflecting on Europe/Future of Europe campaign, providing...

The focus of this study is citizens' views on communications by public institutions. It builds upon the previous work of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission that examined the relationship between online technologies and political behaviour, as well as that of values and...

This report shows that progress has been achieved in the European Union in many areas connected to political participation of people with disabilities since the agency first reported on this issue in 2010. All Member States and the EU have ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with...

This report shows that progress has been achieved in the European Union in many areas connected to political participation of people with disabilities since the agency first reported on this issue in 2010. All Member States and the EU have ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with...

There are numerous studies aimed to examine the socio-economic factors, motivation and youth backgrounds impacting youth civic participation collected by qualitative questionnaires. Simultaneously, there is an empirical literature gap in the examination of youth exchanges and economic country...

Corruption is the great disease of government. It undermines the efficiency of the public sector in many countries around the world. We experimentally study civic engagement (CE) as a constraint on corruption when incentives are stacked against providing CE. We show that CE is powerful in...

This paper examines whether granting property inheritance rights to women improves their participation in politics as election candidates in India. In patriarchal societies like India, conservative gender norms often discourage women from active political engagement, reinforced by social...