Digital Government: SGER: Citizen Agenda-Setting in the Regulatory Process: Electronic Collection and Synthesis of Public Commentary

Stuart W.Drake大学数字政府：SGER：监管过程中的公民议程设置：公众评论的电子收集和综合这项规划拨款将支持对新通信技术（如互联网）对公众参与监管规则制定过程的影响的初步审查，从而为公民/政府互动提供更复杂和可管理的信息系统。一个相关的话题是探讨电子途径在多大程度上使公众评论变得更困难或更无效。合作机构是美国农业部的国家有机计划（NOP）。随着项目的进展，它将促进社会科学家、联邦机构和信息科学家之间的进一步合作。最近，NOP通过电子邮件、传真和邮寄收到了超过27.5万条关于一项拟议法规的评论。如果没有信息技术的帮助，很难从如此庞大和形形色色的反应中得出结论。NOP为PI提供了一个包含20,000个响应的样本数据集，以启动该项目。

EIA-0089892Shulman, Stuart W.Drake UniversityDigital Government: SGER: Citizen Agenda-Setting in the Regulatory Process: Electronic Collection and Synthesis of Public CommentaryThis planning grant will support initial examination of the impact of new communications technologies, such as the Internet, on public involvement in the regulatory rule-making process, leading to more sophisticated and manageable information systems for citizen/government interaction. A related topic of interest is to explore the degree to which electronic avenues make public comment more difficult or less effective for the citizen. The partner agency is the National Organic Program (NOP) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. As the project progresses, it will promote further collaboration between social scientists, federal agencies, and information scientists. Recently, the NOP received over 275,000 comments via email, fax and postal mail in response to a proposed regulation. It is difficult to draw conclusions from such a large and heterogeneous set of responses without the assistance of information technologies. NOP has provided the PI a sample data set of 20,000 responses to begin this project.