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Chapter V: Citizen Participation Techniques

The Table of CP Techniques and CP Objectives

shows each Technique's Strengths and Weaknesses

Additional PROs and CONs that each Technique has

Here's how the table displays these PROs and CONs

#1: Holding or Attending Meetings and Hearings (CP Technique #1)

Some Basic Principles that Apply to all the different Types of Meetings

#1A: Working Meetings

#1B: "Open" Meetings

#1C: Forums

#1D: Public Mass Meetings

#1E: Public Hearings

#1F: Open Houses

#1G: Town Meetings

#1H: Samoan Circles

#2: Advisory Committees (CP Technique #2)

#2A: Committees that give Popularity-Type Advice

#2B: Committees that give Content-Type Advice

#2C: Blue-Ribbon Panels

#2D: Watch-Dog Advisory Committees

#2E: Constituency-Building Advisory Committees

#2F: Depolarizing Advisory Committees

#2G: Mediating Advisory Committees

#2H: Gophers

#2I: Foxes

#2J: Beavers

#3: Nominal Group Workshops

#4: Using the Mass Media to Communicate

#5: Project Newsletters

#6: Napoleon's Idiot

#7: Informing the Public about Your Decision-Making Process

#8: Mapping Socio-Political and Environmental Data

#9: Presenting the Public the Full Range of Feasible Alternatives

#9A: Presenting the Public the Full Range of Options

#9B: Fish-Bowl Planning

#10: Illustrating the Final Form of a Proposed

Alternative in Laymen's Terms

#11: Dealing with the Public in the Agency Offices

#12: Installing an Ombudsman

#13: Encouraging Internal Communication

#14: Gaming and Role-Playing

#15: Operating a Field Office

#16: Making the Most of Existing Mechanisms

#16A: Clubs, Civic Groups, and Other Existing Organizations

#16B: Newsletters, other Publications and the Media

#16C: Existing Institutions, School Systems, etc. . .

#16D: Making the Most of the Other Problem-Solving Efforts

#17: Open a Channel of Communication with Each PAI

#18: Monitoring the Mass Media and Other Non-Reactive Learning

#19: Collecting Data; Carrying out Surveys

#20: Examining Past Actions of a PAI

#21: Experiencing Empathy

#22A: Being a Participant Observer

#22B: Focus Groups

#23: Employing Local Citizens on the Project

#24: Monitoring New Developments in

Systems that may Affect Your Project

#25: Conducting a Background Study

#26: Hiring an Advocate for One or Several Affected Interests

#27: Looking for Analogies

#28: Cataloguing of Solutions Concepts

#29: Conducting Charrette or Other Creativity Enhancing Techniques

#29A: Charrette

#29B: Brainstorming Sessions

#30: Mediating a Conflict Between Different Interests

#31: Being a "Good Samaritan" by Helping Solve

Problems Outside Your Scope of Responsibility

#32: Monitoring the Actual Impacts of a Project

#33: "Delphi" Techniques

#33A: Creating a "Delphi" Crystal Ball

#33B: Doing a "Delphi" Public Survey

#33C: "Delphi" Intelligence Gathering

#34: Lost Letter

#35: Telephone Hot-Line 800-Number

#36: Poster Campaign

#37: Responsiveness Summary / Listening Log

#38: Using the Computer, . . . the Internet, . . .

Television and Radio . . . as Technology-Enabled Responsiveness Tools

#38A: Telephones, FAX Machines, and E-Mail as a CP Technique

#38B: Bulletin Boards

#38C: Using your own Web Site

#38D: Using the PAIs' Web Sites

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