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Electronic Rulemaking

A Public Participation Research Agenda for the Social Sciences

Stuart W. Shulman

Drake University

David Schlosberg

Northern Arizona University

Steve Zavestoski

University of San Francisco

David Courard-Hauri

Drake University

This article proposes a social science research agenda that will reflect on and inform the development of new information technology-based approaches to the electronic collection, distribution, synthesis, and analysis of public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process. It identifies one critical area of an ongoing governance transformation: the use of web-based programs to collect public commentary on proposed agency rules. In the tradition of reflexive modernization, this article calls for deeper social science reflection during the development of a technological design in order to tap its democratic potential.

Key Words: e-rulemaking • environmental decision making • Internet • democracy • public participation • science • public values

Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, 162-178 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0894439303021002003
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