877-0121-00L Public Sphere and Stakeholders in Policy-Making
| Semester | Spring Semester 2024 |
| Lecturers | T. Bernauer, D. Kaufmann, M. Stauffacher |
| Periodicity | two-yearly recurring course |
| Course | Does not take place this semester. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Abstract | 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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