Citizens, consumers, firms, and other stakeholders play an important role in designing and implementing policies that affect and/or are affected by technology. This module enables participants to understand what role public opinion and behavioural approaches play in policy design and implementation, and to systematically design and analyse citizen and stakeholder participation in policy-making.
Learning objective
Public Opinion and Behavioural Public Policy Analysis: Participants understand (1) what role public opinion plays in policy design and implementation processes, (2) how public opinion surveys are designed, (3) how public opinion data is collected, (4) how such data is analysed, (5) how social media data can be used to assess public opinion, (6) how behavioural (field) experiments can be used for policy analysis. Citizen and Stakeholder Participation in Policy-Making: Participants understand (1) what forms of citizen and stakeholder participation can be used when policy interventions are designed and implemented, (2) how such participation can influence decision processes, policy choices, and policy outcomes, (3) what the pitfalls of particular participation forms are and how they can be avoided.
Literature
Course materials can be found on Moodle.
Competencies
Subject-specific Competencies
Concepts and Theories
assessed
Techniques and Technologies
fostered
Method-specific Competencies
Analytical Competencies
assessed
Decision-making
fostered
Media and Digital Technologies
fostered
Problem-solving
fostered
Personal Competencies
Critical Thinking
fostered
Performance assessment
Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again)
Performance assessment as a semester course