1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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’

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

6. research result (1)
the number of issues in a municipal democracy 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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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?

11. 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

12. 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
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13. related questions
for all of The Netherlands it might mean 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?

14. 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 | researcher | eSociety Institute