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Citizens and Resource Allocation: Improving Decision Making with Interactive Web-Based Citizen Participation

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Collective consumption and benefit characterize many government services. Moreover, government services are
mostly paid for collectively through taxes—there is little or no relationship between the taxes paid by a household
and its use of a particular service. Public sector decision makers face complex budget problems with difficult solutions.
Involving citizens meaningfully in these decisions has long been a conundrum. The authors teamed up with the town of West Hartford, Connecticut, to develop a Web-based survey to overcome some of these participation problems and help decision makers better understand citizen preferences. The Web survey allowed for real-time interactivity and was tailored to present respondents with trade-offs between service levels and taxes

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Public Administration Review

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Oxford : Blackwell Publishing., 2008

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English

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0033-3352

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Vol. 68, No. 3, Page 564–575

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Citizens

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