Dr. Stuart Shulman passes on an update on the fascinating work he is doing on eRulemaking. Many of you may know Stu from his impressive
work on the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT). He also is the Editor of the Journal of Information Technology and
Politics and Associate Director of the National Center for Digital
Government.
In a letter to
PCAT users today, Stu writes that he is in the process of “completing our
10-year eRulemaking research effort (http://people.umass.edu/stu/eRulemaking/)
and writing a final report to the National Science Foundation.” He’ll be presenting some of his eRulemaking
Research Group findings and also be demonstrating the newest release of PCAT
this week in Washington.
If eRulemaking
is an interest area for you as well, you may be interested in two articles Stu shared
on the subject.
"The Case
Against Mass E-mails: Perverse Incentives and Low Quality Public Participation
in U.S. Federal Rulemaking," at http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/vol1/iss1/art2.
"Democracy
and E-Rulemaking: Web-Based Technologies, Participation, and the Potential for Deliberation," (co-authored with David Schlosberg and Steven Zavestocki) http://people.umass.edu/stu/doc/JITP4-1_Democracy.pdf<