Large-scale participation in policy design: citizen proposals for rural development in Tunisia

作者：Houssem Braiki, Émeline Hassenforder, Guillaume Lestrelin, Sylvie Morardet, Nicolas Faysse, Soumaya YOUNSI, Nils Ferrand, Crystèle Léauthaud, Nadhira BEN AISSA, Safouane Mouelhi, Sihem JEBARI, Xavier Augusseau, Amar Imache, Audrey BARBE, Jean‐Yves Jamin, Houria AMRI, Hajer ARFA, Ali Bayar, Anissa Ben Hassine, Rouhia FERCHICHI, Kamel GHANMI, Fathi HADDEJI, Khadija HARBAOUI, Noura MESSAOUDI, Ezzeddine ZOUARI · 发表于：EURO Journal on Decision Processes · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1016/j.ejdp.2022.100020 · 被引用次数：9 · 研究领域：Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development、French Urban and Social Studies

More and more literature and practice recommend involving the public at the early stages of the policy cycle, i.e. issue identification, definition of the policy objectives and policy design. Policy design involves, among others, identifying solutions, ideas or alternatives which may address the policy objectives. Three main arguments are often put forward to advocate for the involvement of stakeholders, or the public, in policy design: a “user-centered” argument (i.e. for the policy to better meet people's priorities), an innovation argument (i.e. to conceive new solutions) and a collective argument (i.e. to identify collective actions and better tackle environmental problems). However, in both research and practice these arguments have been challenged. Research has insufficiently generated evidence of the influence of large-scale participation in policy design on resulting proposed actions. The objective of this paper is to analyze whether a large-scale participatory process leads to action proposals that fit people's priorities and that are innovative and collective. It draws from a land management and rural development policy design experiment conducted in six vulnerable areas of Tunisia. 4,300 direct participants were involved and 11,583 action proposals were collected. Our results highlight the influence of the local circumstances on innovation and the interest towards collective actions. Our results also show that whether policy design is made individually or in group ...