Authors

David Markell

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2007

Publication Title

Environmental Law Reporter

Publication Title (Abbreviation)

Envtl. L. Rep.

Volume

37

Issue

5

First Page

10360

Last Page

10384

Abstract

Numerous commentators have urged that government increase opportunities for citizen participation as a way to advance a variety of public policy goals (enhancing government legitimacy, promoting more informed government decisions, etc.). In this Article, David L. Markell explores the experience of an international decisionmaking process that relies heavily on citizen participation, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) citizen submissions process, through the lens of the procedural justice literature, which seeks to understand the reasons why citizens are satisfied with decisionmaking processes. He offers some thoughts about the design and operation of the CEC process in terms of its effectiveness in promoting citizen participation and also considers more generally the design of government processes intended to engage citizens and to promote meaningful public participation in governance.

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© 2007 Environmental Law Institute

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First published in Environmental Law Reporter.

Faculty Biography

http://law.fsu.edu/our-faculty/profiles/markell

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