Replication Data for: Citizen involvement in public policy: Does it matter how much is at stake?

This archive offers replication data for "Citizen involvement in public policy: Does it matter how much is at stake?" It includes the following three data sources: (1) data for two survey experiments on online participatory budgets in the Netherlands; (2) voting data for 19 Dutch online participatory budgets; and (3) data on citizens' experiences with such participatory budgets coming from 28 semi-structured interviews. Abstract: Public administrations increasingly try to find new ways to involve citizens in policy-making. However, many democratic innovations draw in only a fraction of the public. Why? I hypothesize that we observe such low participation rates because there is often not enough at stake for citizens. I test this with a preregistered survey experiment on citizens' intentions to participate in participatory budgets in the Netherlands. I fielded the experiment among a sample of citizens that had just experienced a participatory budget (N = 225) and among a population-based sample (N = 1369). I operationalized the stakes as the amount of public money about which citizens can decide. The results show that more money generally does not increase citizens' intention to participate. Supplementary analyses confirm the experimental findings and provide reasons how and why the stakes involved (do not) matter for citizens' involvement.