Learning from Your Neighbor

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Learning from Your Neighbor

• Public Policy Dispute Resolution
• And
• Public Participation

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Public Policy Dispute Resolution

• PPDR
• Using mediation and facilitation to assist
  stakeholders on program, regulation or policy
  development
• Growing institutionalization at local, state and
  federal level
• Related topics multi-party negotiation,
  consensus-building, deliberative democracy

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Public Participation

• PP
• Citizen or stakeholder input to government,
  nonprofits or businesses
• Many forms public hearings, online polls, open
  houses, etc.
• Related topics civic culture, dialogue,
  consultation, involvement

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PPDR and PP

• Commonalities
• Goals and Values
• Concepts and objectives
• Practices

• Differences
• Reaching an Agreement
• Scope of Participation
• Representation and Authority

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PPDR Evaluation

• Separate stream from PP
• A few overlaps of evaluation studies, PPDR and PP
• PP has more robust studies
• Future PPDR evaluation needs to learn/draw from
  PP evaluations

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PPDR Evaluation Improvements

• Four studies of PP evaluation
• Findings
• A) Representation and Legitimacy
• B) Draw from inductive and deductive criteria
• C) Clearer relationships Measures and Goals
• D) More robust treatment of participation
  dynamics within a PPDR case

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Thanks, Authors

• Maureen Berner and John Stephens
• School of Government
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• www.sog.unc.edu
• stephens_at_sog.unc.edu