Martijn Hartog | researcher | eSociety Institute the workload for the structural implementation of e-democracy: local government policy issues combined with the policy cycle and styles of citizenship Good afternoon fellow participants of this conference,   Thank you very much for joining this presentation and giving us the opportuninity to present our research. Unfortunately my collegae and lead author Bert Mulder oould not us at the conference. I am Martijn Hartog and a project leader and researcher at the eSociety Insituut of the Hague University of Applied Sciences. What you see here is the title of our paper. Martijn Hartog | researcher | eSociety Institute

context main interest: the practical reality of implementing e-democracy supporting existing local government democratic procedures what ‘workload’ would large scale and structural deployment cause? how many active policy dossiers does a city have? what kind and what complexity? what audience and what participatory interest? The research started out of interest in the practicallity of implementing e-democracy on a large scale and the support this needsbny local government. Which led into a exploratiory research to determine the possbilbe workload to achieve such a implementation. And lack of What we did was exploring and try to measure the possible workload for local governmental bodies to struturally implement e-democracy. To do so we

research questions how many policy issues are active at one time how many citizens are interested in e-participation how many policy issues should/could be supported by digital tools

research setup number of policy issues: inventory of all municipal agendas participatory value: position on a ‘policy cycle’ citizen’s interest: relate to ‘styles of citizenship’

research environment a single municipality The Hague, the Netherlands (450.000 inhabitants) period: 1 council term - 3 years | issues: 1834 in total / 1223 policy issues

research result (1) the number of issues in a municipal democracy 200-300 annually issues divided along policy cycle 95 597 177 20 334 total: 1223 policy issues 227 (0) I agenda setting II preparation III determi nation IV execution V monitoring evaluation

research results (2) possible interest in democratic issues: 4 ‘styles of citizenship’ ( outsiders / inactive ) dutiful / dependent pragmatic / conformist society critic / responsible

research results (2) adaptation of 8 style generic ‘lifestyles model’ in Dutch population developed for Ministry of the Interior | researched on population of The Hague

research results (2) outsiders (inactive) dutiful 31.500 (7%) 73 (218) municipality of The Hague (450.000) number of policy issues online | population interested lifestyle population issues/1yr issues/3 years outsiders (inactive) dutiful 31.500 (7%) 73 (218) pragmatic 157.500 (35%) 81 (243) society critic 117.700 (26%) 180 (540) policy issues/yr 275.000 (60%) 260 (1001)

research conclusion large scale deployment of e-democracy in the municipality of The Hague would mean supporting 250 active online democracy dossiers annually the questions: what supporting process? what organisation? what online tools and representation?

prioritizing e-democracy issues e-support for democracy may be estimated using democratic desirability and operational complexity democratic necessity the easy high democratic necessity easy to realize the challenge high democratic necessity hard to realize operational complexity the extra low democratic necessity easy to realize the long term low democratic necessity hard to realize

future directions a model for local governments: fine-tuning the current model review mapping using policy cycle / styles of citizenship benchmarking smaller and medium sized cities creating general model estimating municipalities ‘workload’ for e-democracy online democratic dossiers: designing online dossiers what elements, what form, what quality Voorbeelden toevoegen van de gemeente. Opzoeken of deze er zijn en hoe ze het verwerken op gemeente site.

related questions for all of The Netherlands it might mean 20.000 active policy dossiers online how do these determine democratic quality? what quality of democratic participation is possible? what kind of design issues are associated with this?

Martijn Hartog (m.w.hartog@hhs.nl) | researcher | eSociety Institute the workload for the structural implementation of e-democracy: local government policy issues combined with the policy cycle and styles of citizenship Martijn Hartog (m.w.hartog@hhs.nl) | researcher | eSociety Institute