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Citizens versus the Government or Citizens with the Government: a Tale of Two e-Participation Portals in One City - a Case Study of St. Petersburg, Russia
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projects and citizens’ initiatives. Although the cooperation between them is the best outcome, they usually compete for popularity and efficiency, representing conflicting views on engagement. In this paper, we aim to determine factors influencing the outcome of such competition. We analyze the sources of portals’ viability as separate initiatives and the possibilities for their convergence and cooperation. We take the case of St. Petersburg (Russia), where public authorities and civic activists have created two e-participation platforms to address the same issues of urban development.
Our main argument is that the viability of portals is based on their institutional basis. Our findings suggest that while the government – sponsored initiative is a formal institutional innovation with strong political support, it is unlikely to sustain changes in the bureaucratic process without political leadership. The civic initiative does not create new laws, but develops online community, contributing to new social norms. When the former is winning the competition in the short-term, the latter has a strategic advantage. Co-existence and “forced cooperation” is the most possible future here, as the institutional environment forces the government and activists to cooperate despite the escalating conflict. A rational choice by citizens, whose alternative suits their interests best, will also determine the future of the portals, but is shaped by the abovementioned conditions.
Keywords: e-Participation
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Sokolov B., Политическая наука 2013 № 1 С. 69-82
In this article various papers presented on the IV International conference on online-deliberation which took place at the University of Leeds (UK) in 2010 and was dedicated to the search of the proper answers to all social and technological challenges to this relatively new scientific field are reviewed. To begin with the author gives a brief history of ...
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Davydova M., Mamay E., Kushniruk R., , in : Competitive Russia: Foresight Model of Economic and Legal Development in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference in Memory of Oleg Inshakov (1952-2018). Issue 110: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems.: Springer, 2020. P. 511-521.
Purpose: The development of e-government raises the question how
to provide e-services oriented to the personal needs of individuals and collective
interests in a civil society. In this sense, the various forms of e-democracy are
becoming the tool of direct communication between consumers and suppliers of
public services.
The purpose of the article is to determine the value of various ...
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Volkovskii D., Filatova O., , in : ICEGOV 2020: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. : NY : ACM, 2020. P. 326-333.
The paper presents results of ongoing research of everyday Internet discussions on relevant public policy issues. This research is theoretically based on conception of deliberative democracy of J. Habermas and on previous research by authors. The ultimate goal of the research is to develop approaches and instruments aiding discussants to reduce the excessively polarized opinions in a ...
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Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2016, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in September 5-8, 2016.
The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers reflect completed multi-disciplinary research ranging from policy analysis and conceptual modeling to programming ...
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Revyakin S., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2018 № 2 С. 94-113
Information and communication technologies have been increasingly used to involve in the government decision-making process. Given high costs associated with developing and maintaining electronic platforms, effectiveness of such projects has not been frequently assessed. The article discusses theoretical approaches to evaluating effectiveness of e-participation projects, suggests criteria and a methodology for conducting such evaluations, and ...
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Revyakin S., da Rocha A., Public Administration Issues 2021 No. 5 P. 137-160
The problem of low usage of e-government solutions is common in many emerging countries. Is Russia experiencing the same issue? Are there sufficient conditions to grow the usage of e-government solutions (internet penetration rate, rights for the citizens to approach the government remotely, trust in government, computer skills and usage perception, etc.)? Do the use ...
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Arkatov D., , in : ICEGOV '23: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. : NY : ACM, 2023. P. 278-285.
How do specific characteristics of public servants impact their attitudes towards e-participation? In the current literature on e-government and e-participation there is surprisingly a little number of articles that cover this issue. Usually, researchers pay their attention to organizational and structural explanations for e-participation adoption and implementation success. This includes economic variables, such as GDP ...
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Revyakin S., Вестник Омского университета. Серия: Экономика 2018 № 3 С. 213-225
The article explores e-participation platforms for government strategic planning. The paper reports a study that analyzes the concepts related to public participation and presents the results of a research aimed to suggest the classification of existing electronic platforms and define best practice in terms of its parameters and features. Based on the analysis of 37 ...
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Arkatov D., Городские исследования и практики 2023 Т. 8 № 1 С. 46-60
What is the impact of E-Participation on quality of public administration? The modern literature on public participation suggests two basic perspectives. Some researchers and practitioners are pretty skeptical about public participation, indicating that democratic and bureaucratic processes inherently go against each other. They insist that when citizens are brought to policy making and implementation there ...
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Bershadskaya (Vidiasova) L., Chugunov A., Trutnev D. et al., , in : Electronic Government and Electronic Participation. Vol. 22.: , 2015. Ch. 27. P. 253 -260.
The article discusses the experience of UN international methodology for assessing e-government development at federal and regional levels in Russia. United Nations procedure for e-government development measuring is widely used in the world and allows comparison of 191 countries. Focusing on international standards, the authors conducted survey of federal and regional executive authorities' web-sites. The ...
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Kabanov Y., Government Information Quarterly 2022 Vol. 39 No. 1 Article 101656
The E-Participation Index of the United Nations E-Government Survey (EPI) has become an important data source on e-participation progress around the globe. However, its validity is often questioned by scholars, pointing out that the EPI measures technological aspects only and overlook the socio-political context. As a refinement, researchers usually utilize composite liberal democracy indices which, ...
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Kabanov Y., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2018 № 3 С. 50-66
Currently, non-democracies are showing a significant interest in e-participation tools, i.e. in various online mechanisms for citizen participation in public policy, such as epetitions and e-consultations. Such instruments can be found in a vast range of countries from the post-Soviet space to the Middle East. This leads to new interpretations of the role ICT play ...
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Kabanov Y., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2016 Т. 83 № 4 С. 36-55
The past several years there has been a stable interest of non-democracies towards the institute of electronic participation. The article addresses the possible reasons of the concept’s popularity and factors of its successful implementation. It is argued that e-participation allows solving internal problems of Internet - control and legitimacy, as well as boosting up international ...
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Kabanov Y., Чугунов А. В., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2021 Т. 19 № 1 С. 101-114
Human development, social policy and e-participation are interdependent. Effective social investment in the human capital leads to the emergence of demand for participation mechanisms among citizens, which in turn results in the willingness of authorities to implement participatory innovations. At the same time, e-participation is itself a part of the social investment paradigm, aimed at raising the quality of ...
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Schlaufer C., Governance: An international journal of policy, administration and institutions 2020 P. 1-16
Citizen online participation has become an increasingly important feature of policymaking in nondemocratic regimes. This article explores the question of why nondemocratic governments promote e‐participation tools. To address this question, this research examines the motives for the introduction of the Active Citizen e‐voting platform in Moscow through an in‐depth case study drawing on interviews and ...
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Kabanov Y., Chugunov A. V., Panfilov G., , in : ICEGOV '23: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. : NY : ACM, 2023. P. 191-196.
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Kabanov Yury, Chugunov A., , in : Electronic Participation. 10th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2018, Krems, Austria, September 3-5, 2018, Proceedings. : Cham : Springer, 2018. Ch. 2. P. 13-25.
The paper presents an attempt to develop an e-participation evaluation technique that considers institutional design, compatible with large- and small-N analysis, as well as useful for policy-makers. Based on the new institutionalism
and previous research, we assess the development of access, embeddedness and control features of e-participation. The framework is tested on 85 Russian regional e-participation ...
Added: October 24, 2018
Revyakin S., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2019 № 3 С. 88-106
Information technologies are actively used by government agencies to interact with citizens in public administration. At the same time exploitation of advanced communication technologies through Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp requires developed communication capabilities of electronic platforms used for public participation. The article explores the features of e-participation platforms employed by public administration in Russia. It ...
Added: March 25, 2020
Sungurov A., Arkatov D., Политическая наука 2021 № 3 С. 54-71
Around the World, public policy is experiencing the growth of eparticipation – ICT-based ways of interaction on public matters between state and general public. These may include online-consultations or participatory decision-making. Despite the scholars’ effort to extensively study the phenomena, we still know little of e-participation. This review article seeks to compile what do we ...
Added: August 26, 2021