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.

本数据集为论文《公民参与公共政策：涉事资金规模是否会影响参与行为？》提供研究复现所需的全部数据。其涵盖以下三类数据源：(1) 荷兰两项在线参与式预算调研实验的相关数据；(2) 19个荷兰在线参与式预算的投票数据；(3) 由28场半结构化访谈采集的公民参与此类参与式预算的体验相关数据。

摘要：公共行政部门正日益探寻新路径以推动公民参与政策制定进程，但诸多民主创新举措仅能吸引极少数公众参与其中。究其根源，本文提出假说：此类参与率偏低的核心原因往往在于公民未感知到足够的利害关联。为验证该假说，本文针对荷兰公民参与参与式预算的意愿开展了预注册调研实验。本研究在两类样本中实施了该实验：其一为刚参与过某参与式预算的公民群体（N=225），其二为人群代表性样本（N=1369）。研究将利害关联程度操作化为公民可自主决策的公共资金规模。结果表明，总体而言，可支配公共资金的提升并未显著增强公民的参与意愿。补充分析进一步验证了实验结论，并阐释了利害关联程度对公民参与行为（不）产生影响的具体路径与内在逻辑。