Replication data for: Whither Deliberation

Mass e-mail campaigns are the organizational tool of choice for environmental activists seeking to inform and mobilize their constituencies. Some democratic theorists and reformers pin their hopes for more responsive and informed government policy on Internet-enhanced dialogue and debate. Electronic advocacy campaigns and action alerts are changing the nature and scope of public deliberation in contentious federal rulemaking. This paper examines the new digital landscape of electronic rulemaking through a case study of the recent mercury rulemaking at the US Environmental Protection Agency. Results are presented from an effort to code a sample of 1,000 e-mails selected at random from a dataset of approximately half a million. Particular attention is paid to the unique additions made to form letters. doi:10.1300/J39 9v03n03_03

大规模电子邮件宣传活动是环保活动人士用以告知并动员其支持者群体的首选组织工具。部分民主理论学者与改革者将制定更具响应性、信息更为充分的政府政策的期望，寄托于互联网赋能的对话与辩论之中。电子倡导活动与行动提醒，正改变着争议性联邦法规制定流程中公共审议的性质与范围。本文以美国环境保护署（U.S. Environmental Protection Agency）近期汞排放法规制定案例为研究对象，剖析电子法规制定的新兴数字化场景。本研究从约50万封电子邮件的数据集内随机抽取1000封样本并开展编码标注工作，最终呈现相关研究结果。研究特别关注了模板邮件中所添加的个性化增补内容。doi:10.1300/J399v03n03_03