Good governnace Consultations

2024

The consultation is a gathering of people to produce new ideas after thinking and exchanging views. It can also be characterized as a learning experience, through which participants have the opportunity to know and co-shape new aspects of their collective reality. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the usefulness of consultation and the possibility of using it for the elaboration of operational planning in public organisations. From the analysis regarding the experience during an innovative workshop and the evaluation of a relevant training program the work contributes to the utilization of consultation to strengthen democratic dialogue and the possibility of using it as a tool for the utilization of collective intelligence, i.e. the experience, knowledge, creativity and abilities of the members of an organization. The use of consultation facilitates realistic strategic and operational planning and enhances effective management for the development of the organisation. Keywords: consultation, public organisations' planning, participatory planning, better governance 1. Introduction Consultation as a learning experience is two-dimensional, it is the means/tool for generating ideas and at the same time it is the result produced by it. To the extent that consultation is a learning experience, it is an extremely important tool for an adult education organisation (ERC) because democratic dialogue is strengthened with the aim of developing stakeholder engagement, enhancing the transparency, coherence and effectiveness of the organisation. In addition, as a process, consultation has learning outcomes and is an example for learners. Public consultation is the process of seeking citizens' input on issues that concern them, supported by open and collaborative governance initiatives and its main objectives are transparency and effectiveness in policy-making (https://el.wikipedia.org). In the Policy Report of the Innovative Workshop entitled "Innovations in Consultation. The participation of citizens in decision-making" (Komseli, 2011), the public consultation is mentioned "as a necessary element of a participatory democracy, which listens to and integrates the views and demands of citizens and social actors in the decision-making process". It is useful for "exploiting the collective intelligence (experience, knowledge and creativity) that exists in societies and facilitates the formulation of a realistic development strategy and the exercise of better governance (EETAA, 2020). In this regard, open deliberation for the submission of policy suggestions contributes to the development of transparency and the design of better policies, while simultaneously facilitates the dynamic relationship between interest groups and the state, thus elevating the relationship between citizens and the state. The concept of consultation is not consistent with the exclusion of participation or the expression of an opinion of one side and/or with the imposition of the point of view of one side that may be valid vis-à-vis the other parties to this formal discussion. The work aims to highlight the main points of the experience during the innovative workshop and what we have learnt from the experience of a training program entitled "The role and the importance of consultation in public administration".

2017

© Csiszér Annamária 2.2.9. Politicizing the social psychological aspects of identity …………………67 2.2.10. Deconstructing identities………………………………………………...67 2.2.11. Future identities………………………………………………………….68 Chapter 3: Conceptualizing trust and confidence…………………………………..70 3.1. Functions of trust……………………………………………………………71 3.2. Knowledge and trust………………………………………………………...72 3.3. The undesirable situations…………………………………………………..73 3.4. Trust created in light of expectations……………………………………….74 3.5. The cognitively naive trust …………………………………………………75 3.6. The assymetric expanse of trust and mistrust……………………………….77 3.7. Changes in the concept of trust as social capital in Hungary ……………...81 3.8. Distrust in our contemporary Hungarian society …………………………...84 PART II. Chapter 4: A discourse analysisthe appearance of online public opinion in relation to the use of 2014-2020 development funds, and its significance in offline policy making………………………………………………………………………….89 4.1. Why discourse analysis………………………………………………………..91 4.2. Scope of the research………………………………………………………….95 4.2.1. The second phase of public consultation:7th-25th November 2014….106 4.2.2. The effect of public opinion on the consultation texts ……………….116 4.2.3. Summary………………………………………………………………118 4.3. The background of a public consultation as a sphere of rational deliberation………………………………………………………………………..120 4.3.1. Why semi-structured interviews ………………………………………120 4.3.2. The results of the semi-structured interviews …………………………123

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies

The author would like to thank the participants at various conferences where these ideas were developed, various colleagues, including The author would like to thank the participants at various conferences where these ideas were developed, various colleagues, including Professors Gordon Anthony and Amnon Reichman, and the editor and anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions. 1 There is of course a worldwide and international context for consultation. The United Nations Agenda 21 on sustainable development calls for "the broadest public participation" and urges "the active involvement of the non-governmental organizations and other groups" (see https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf). The European Commission is attempting to redress the disconnect with its institutions felt by many of its citizens through a variety of initiatives including a "Your voice in Europe" consultation webpage and its Citizens' Dialogue initiative (see http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/index_en.htm, and http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-dialogues/ (visited 14 th February 2017). See also D Friedrich, Democratic Participation and Civil Society in the European Union (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2011). Green paper followed by White Paper, with perhaps a little discussion with interested groups or lobbyists, has given way to a more elaborate processes seeking the views of a wider range of interests. 2 Despite the fact that, as Davidson and Elstub point out, the culture of democracy and nature of government structures in the UK have never been particularly suited to deliberation, 3 there have been a variety of experiments over the last quarter century. These have involved citizen juries, deliberative polls and participatory budgeting, sometimes with an information and communication technology (ICT) element. 4 However most consultations are more prosaic, with the online element restricted to a webpage containing a link to a .pdf document. The UK Government's website page for "Consultations" lists 698 consultations published in 2016 alone, out of a total of 3,642 since the decade began. 5 Devolution has intensified the emphasis on consultation. The Northern Ireland Act 1998 initially led the way through its s. 75 requirement that public authorities promote equality of opportunity, and consult widely about the effect of their policies on persons of different sex, religious belief, political opinion, racial group, age, marital status or sexual orientation, and those with a disability or with dependents. The Scottish Ministerial Code commits the Scottish Government "to develop procedures which make possible a participative approach to the development, consideration and scrutiny of policy and legislation", and it has established a "Consultation Hub". 6 Participatory budgeting too has received a boost in Scotland with a commitment in 2016 to spend an extra half million pounds in this way. 7 In Wales there is not only a list of consultations online but the Council for Voluntary Action maintains a webpage detailing consultations from various 2

2016

International journal of action research, 2005

This article discusses the process of construction of "critical citizenship" in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, since 2002. After the anthropologist Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, the candidate of the PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution), took office as state governor in that same year, a process designed to favor, stimulate and empower the citizens in the exercise of their right to participate in the government's co-management was started. On the basis of the political platform of his electoral campaign, his government plan and mainly the explicit political will to govern "from, for and with the citizens," actions designed to materialize this motto were developed. The article describes the foundations of this process, the methodological proposals, the design of the "workshops for self-diagnosis and working out of proposals" (TADEPs), their implementation, the required instruments and the results that have been obtained. It presents other consultation mechanisms that have been applied and their results. It also describes the "follow-up mechanisms" that were implemented to apply what was researched and in this way to strengthen the real processes of citizen participation.

Public consultation has become a major part of planning in the last forty years and much has been written on the subject. This article reviews the writing generated over the past two decades and breaks it into sections respecting the theory and rationale behind consultation, the conceivable approaches to engage the public, and the means available to analyze and evaluate consultative efforts. Conclusions relevant to academics and practitioners are drawn as are suggestions from the authors concerning the principal gaps that needed to be filled in order for planners to have reliable tools to evaluate the effectiveness of consultative processes.

This OECD Handbook on Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-making is a practitioner’s guide designed for use by government officials in OECD Member and non-member countries. It offers a practical “road map” for building robust frameworks for informing, consulting and engaging citizens during policy-making. The Handbook recognises the great diversity of country contexts, objectives and measures in strengthening government-citizen relations. As a result, it offers no prescriptions or ready-made solutions. Rather, it seeks to clarify the key issues and decisions faced by government officials when designing and implementing measures to ensure access to information, opportunities for consultation and public participation in policy-making in their respective countries.

2013

Politics in Central Europe, 2022

National or supranational consultations on general policy questions are unusual phenomena. Nevertheless, they seem to play an important role in the political life of the community either because they might be considered as rudimentary forms of deliberative practices or because they are important strategic tools in the hands of political actors. Given this salience of consultations from both normative deliberative and descriptive strategic perspectives, it is surprising that academic analyses of national consultations are scarce. This paper tries to fill this gap in the literature by focusing on one of the most well known examples of nation wide consultations, the series of na tional consultations in Hungary. It aims to present why national consultations gradually lost their deliberative character and how they have been transformed into a strategic instrument for mobilising supporters.