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Chapter IV: Citizen Participation Objectives

  • Why Should You Do Citizen Participation
  • What is "Informed Consent"?
                The Role of Informed Consent
                How does One Develop Informed Consent

  • The 15 CP Objectives

A: The five Responsibility Objectives
     #1: Establish the Legitimacy of your Agency and your Project
     #2: Maintain the Legitimacy of your Agency and your Project
     #3: Establish the Legitimacy of your Problem-Solving

           and Decision-Making Process

     #4: Maintain the Legitimacy of your Processes
     #5: Establish and Maintain the Legitimacy of

           Major Assumptions and Earlier Decisions

B: The five Responsiveness Objectives
     #6: Get to Know all the Potentially Affected Interests              
     #7:  Get to See the Project through Their Eyes
     #8:  Identify and Understand Problems
     #9:  Generate Alternative Solutions
     #10:  Articulate and Clarify the Key Issues

C:  The Effectiveness Objectives
      #11:  Protect and Enhance your Credibility
      #12: Have all of the Information that you need to Communication

              to the various Interests Received and Understood by them

      #13: Receive and Understand all the Information

               that the various Interests Need to Communicate to You

  • The De-Polarizing Objectives
  • #14: Finding Common Ground among Polarized Interests
                  Some Game Theory Basics
                  There is a bit of a Chicken-and-Egg Problem
                  Back to CP Objective #14
  • #15:  Depolarizing Interests Who are Polarized for Some Other Reason
  • Shape Your CP Program around Your CP Needs

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