abstract in global

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Chapter Goals and Objectives

Overall – students will learn and understand:

▪ consequences of complexity in the real-world, and

meaningful ways to understand and manage such situations

▪ the implications of complexity and that many social systems

are unpredictable by nature, especially when in the

presence of structural change (transitions)

▪ natural tendency to criticize the approaches that ignore

difficulties and pretend to predict using simplistic models

▪ that managing a complex system requires a good

understanding of the dynamics of the system in question—to

know, before they occur, some of the real possibilities that

might occur and be ready so they can be reacted to as

responsively as possible.

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9. Stakeholder Engagement in Policy

Development: Observations and Lessons…

▪ identification of stakeholders, and the selection

depends on the goals of engaging stakeholders.

▪ appropriate selection of stakeholders to involve can

evolve over time, the identification and engagement

of stakeholders is a continuous process

▪ stakeholder involvement to elicit views and interests

in matters – during the process, notable shift to

engage stakeholders to ensure commitment and

facilitation building

▪ consensus among the stakeholder tools can take

many different forms:

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9. Stakeholder Engagement in Policy

Development: Observations and Lessons… ▪ use of technology: important factor matching tools to

objectives and capabilities of involved stakeholders

▪ stakeholder identification methods – purpose centric

▪ desk research, surveys, interviews, and stakeholder or

interests mapping tools are useful approaches

▪ iterative stakeholder identification often helps create a

more complete array of relevant stakeholders;

combination with relevant literature shows purposes for

stakeholder engagement that guide the selection of

stakeholder types.

▪ transparency of the process, facilitating adoption,

improve usefulness and usability of tools, enhance

legitimacy, and purposes of stakeholder engagement

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References:

Janssen, M., et al. (eds.), Policy Practice and Digital Science, Public Administration

and Information Technology 10, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-12784-2_1

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