Talk:Public participation

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Question about a new page: Government Public Participation Links in Canada
I'd like to create a new article that lists links to all the Government Public Participation web pages in Canada, i.e. at all levels of government, including every major city. I'm guessing this is not quite appropriate for wikipedia, or maybe it is? Any suggestions where would be the best place to host such a page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasondiceman (talk • contribs) 14:39, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Untitled
Needs extension: to do - inclusion of Participatory planning, the Aarhus Convention, Environmental impact assessment, Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, Strategic lawsuit against public participation and Neighborhood planning.--SasiSasi (talk) 17:10, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Overlap between participation articles
I was looking at the articles on participation, and I noticed that they are not very coordinated and they overlap quite a bit. I'm starting a discussion about this at Talk:Participation. Any help is appreciated! MakeBelieveMonster (talk) 16:27, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

colour Public Participation beautiful
To sort topics of public participation by the public impact / influence an infobox might be useful originating from de.wikipedia Spektrum der Bürgerbeteiligung (English spectrum of public participation). Thanks, Edward Steintain (talk) 08:10, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Science and Policy Suggested Edits
Public participation in science has been coined as "citizen science". I recommend thinning out the Environmental section and adding a sub-section talking about citizen science. Below are my proposed sources for that section:

Richardson, Liz. “Engaging the Public in Policy Research: Are Community Researchers the Answer?” Politics and Governance, vol. 2, no. 1, 2014, pp. 32–44.

M. James C. Crabbe. “From Citizen Science to Policy Development on the Coral Reefs of Jamaica.” International Journal of Zoology, vol. 2012, 2012, pp. International Journal of Zoology, 01 January 2012, Vol.2012.

Hollow, Roetman, Walter, and Daniels. "Citizen Science for Policy Development: The Case of Koala Management in South Australia." Environmental Science and Policy 47 (2015): 126-36.

Chapman, Colin and Crona Hodges. "Can Citizen Science Seriously Contribute to Policy Development?: A Decision Maker's View." Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research. IGI Global, 2017. 246-261.

Pidgeon, Nick, et al. “Creating a National Citizen Engagement Process for Energy Policy.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 Suppl 4, 2014, pp. 13606–13.

Wooden, Ruth. “The Principles of Public Engagement: At the Nexus of Science, Public Policy Influence, and Citizen Education.” Social Research, vol. 73, no. 3, 2006, pp. 1057–1063. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cgabriele (talk • contribs) 18:50, 2 November 2017 (UTC) Cgabriele (talk) 19:08, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Below is the suggested addition...

Citizen Science

Liz Richardson, a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics and an editor for the journal Local Government Studies, has long advocated for the greater inclusion of non-professional scientists in policy research. She emphasizes that it is academia’s responsibly to facilitate the “democratization of policy research” noting several benefits of having citizens involved in not just the contribution of data, but also the framing and development of research itself (2014). She notes that the biggest disadvantage of citizen science is the reliance on using citizens as only contributing members of the scientific endeavors and pushes for a more community-based participatory research method which would include laypeople in the entirety of the research process while emphasizing the scientific method popularized by citizen science.

In their 2017 article, Colin Chapman and Crona Hodges outline what they believe to be the key to success in applying citizen science to policy development: data which is “suitable, robust, and of a known quality for evidence-based policy making” (2017). They identified several barriers to applying citizen science to policy development including a lack of suitability between the data collected and the policy in question and skepticism regarding the data collected by non-experts.

Cgabriele (talk) 19:18, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
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Merger proposal
I propose to merge The right to public participation into Public participation. This article already has a "Right to..." section that can be expanded with material found by the author of that other article. Also, "The right to public participation" is not a viable term in the literature. Yes, some authors have stated that people have this right, but there are not parallel Wikipedia articles for "Freedom of speech" and "The right to freedom of speech". ☆  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) ☆ 14:37, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * After two weeks these appears uncontroversial, or even unknown, so I will do the merge. ☆  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) ☆ 21:19, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * This appeared to have been demerged by an IP. I have reverted the text removal subject to consensus here. The new article [:Right to public participation]] remains extant but should probably become a redirect if there is no support for this unilateral fork.  Velella  Velella Talk 14:21, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Housekeeping: so it seems that The right to public participation was preserved by User:sadads and an excerpt was added here. Is this discussion now complete? EMsmile (talk) 10:41, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * As a human right, it needs to be separated from the generic concept, sorry if I didn't write an explanation about that here, Sadads (talk) 19:51, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Proposed improvements
I have a few suggestions for improvements. I won't have time to do them myself in the near future but am just putting them here in case someone else wants to improve this article further:
 * Needs restructuring to use standard headings;
 * seems to be mainly an overview article which doesn't go into depth. Connections with other articles are not well developed, e.g. with citizen science (which also needs a lot of work).
 * Connections with SDGs not yet included (participation and participatory is mentioned in several of the SDGs, e.g. Target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels and Target 11.3: By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries).
 * The section "Critical interpretations of public participation" is more written like an academic literature review; was probably a student piece.
 * There are so many related articles, starting with "participatory" in the title; could be quite hard to figure out what should go where. EMsmile (talk) 10:46, 18 May 2022 (UTC)