PennDOT announced that it will hold a 45-day public comment period on proposed updates to its Statewide Public Participation Plan through Wednesday, March 11. The plan outlines the public ...

A pressing question for any democratic government is how it can go about knowing its citizens, their values and concerns, and their responses to the government’s own policies. Such an impulse can be ...

In a recent study entitled Making Public Participation Legal, Matt Leighninger cites a Knight Foundation report that found that attending a public meeting was more likely to reduce a person's sense of ...

Public participation and community engagement lie at the heart of contemporary efforts to foster democratic governance and sustainable development. By actively involving citizens and local ...

The search for new mechanisms of public participation in policymaking has become a case in point in the international debate. In the last two decades, the wide range of participatory initiatives ...

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