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  • Consultation and Contest: the Danger of Mixing Modes

    Author(s)
    Kane, J
    Bishop, P
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Kane, John
    Bishop, Patrick J.
    Year published
    2002
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    Abstract
    This paper argues that public consultative procedures undertaken by governments or their public services sometimes go awry because of certain confusions as to the nature and purposes of consultation. One of the most important of these is a tendency to view consultation as an exercise in policy determination by the public rather than as public input into the representative democratic process whose ultimate use is to be defined by the elected decision-makers. The result of this confusion is a tendency to misunderstand or overestimate what public consultations can achieve, and a failure to make a distinction between occasions ...
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    This paper argues that public consultative procedures undertaken by governments or their public services sometimes go awry because of certain confusions as to the nature and purposes of consultation. One of the most important of these is a tendency to view consultation as an exercise in policy determination by the public rather than as public input into the representative democratic process whose ultimate use is to be defined by the elected decision-makers. The result of this confusion is a tendency to misunderstand or overestimate what public consultations can achieve, and a failure to make a distinction between occasions when such consultations are useful and occasions when they must give way to explicit political contest. Three levels of activity - the technical, the transactional and the political - are analytically distinguished along with the modes of action-response appropriate to each - in order to explain and clarify the nature of good consultative practice.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Public Administration
    Volume
    61
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8500.00261
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.00261
    Copyright Statement
    © 2002 Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at [www.blackwell-synergy.com.]
    Subject
    Economics
    Commerce, management, tourism and services
    Human society
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/7106
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