Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2014
Abstract
Crowdsourcing is beginning to be used for policymaking. The “wisdom of crowds” [Surowiecki 2005], and crowdsourcing [Brabham 2008], are seen as new avenues that can shape all kinds of policy, from transportation policy [Nash 2009] to urban planning [Seltzer and Mahmoudi 2013], to climate policy. In general, many have high expectations for positive outcomes with crowdsourcing, and based on both anecdotal and empirical evidence, some of these expectations seem justified [Majchrzak and Malhotra 2013]. Yet, to our knowledge, research has yet to emerge that unpacks the different forms of crowdsourcing in light of each stage of the well-established policy cycle. This work addresses this research gap, and in doing so brings increased nuance to the application of crowdsourcing techniques for policymaking.
Keywords
Crowdsourcing, Policy Cycle, Virtual Labor Markets, Tournament-Based Collaboration, Open Collaboration, Policy Design, Policy Evaluation, Policy Implementation, Policy Enforcement
Discipline
Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Collective Intelligence 2014, June 10-12, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
First Page
1
Last Page
5
Publisher
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
City or Country
Cambridge, MA
Citation
Prpić, John; TAEIHAGH, Araz; and Melton, James, "Crowdsourcing the Policy Cycle" (2014). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 1864.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1864
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1864
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2398191