PPD 240g Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Public Participation, Civic Engagement
8 Sep 2016
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Move bikes so that they don"t block things. To protect their interests, others" rights, or common good. Informing the public is not real participation. Listening to the public creates openness and feedback, but the public isn"t really making decisions. Engaging the public is about collaborative problem solving. Agreeing is about consensus and buy-in by the public. Agencies have legal mandates to act, often implementing laws. Agencies have contractual obligations (as do the organizations that are contracted to provide services/goods on behalf of government) The public isn"t directly paying for goods and services provided by agencies. Agencies must represent a public interest, not just the interests of a few. Based on authors experience with over 300 participation programs. Public administrators can"t make decisions without assigning weight or priority to competing values. Public agency managers make decisions on our behalf- but we don"t elect them.
