Lodge, Martin 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4273-6118 and Wegrich, Kai
(2014)
Crowdsourcing and regulatory reviews: a new way of challenging red tape in British government?
Regulation and Governance, 9 (1).
pp. 30-46.
ISSN 1748-5983
Abstract
Much has been said about the appeal of digital government devices to enhance consultation on rulemaking. This paper explores the most ambitious attempt by the UK central government so far to draw on “crowdsourcing” to consult and act on regulatory reform, the “Red Tape Challenge.” We find that the results of this exercise do not represent any major change to traditional challenges to consultation processes. Instead, we suggest that the extensive institutional arrangements for crowdsourcing were hardly significant in informing actual policy responses: neither the tone of the crowdsourced comments, the direction of the majority views, nor specific comments were seen to matter. Instead, it was processes within the executive that shaped the overall governmental responses to this initiative. The findings, therefore, provoke wider debates about the use of social media in rulemaking and consultation exercises.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd |
| Divisions: | Government Centre for Analysis of Risk & Regulation |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2014 11:52 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Apr 2024 05:51 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55921 |
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