HECOL300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: National Institutes Of Health, Deliberative Opinion Poll, Organizational Culture
23 Jan 2018
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Public engagement *challenge of balancing what people want with the realities surrounding decisions: consultation vs engagement (pal p. 248-249, consultation. Involves getting obvious stakeholders together usual suspects . Get perspective of people on very narrow/pre-determined things. Can make it dif cult to move beyond entrenched pre-existing views: engagement. Motivated by increase in citizen distrust in governments. Bring public into the policy/program development process. Involves getting ordinary citizens together to thoughtfully re ect on a policy problem or question. Different techniques: study circles *governments consider this more of an educational approach, citizen"s juries *hear from experts >>> recommendations to government. Follow-up or under consideration : deliberative polling, challenges, only one stream of information that informs decision making, openness demanded by engagement can be counter to organizational culture or mandate. !1: governments will not want to engage around issues such as cuts and program closures, as the public will likely disagree.
