Deliberative Democratic Evaluation

Abstract

The issue of citizen and stakeholder engagement is a topic of growing importance in the academic literature. Although there has been an effort to examine this phenomenon in the arena of highway transportation, little attention has been given to how stakeholder engagement can be applied to the maritime transportation industry. By employing a deliberative democratic model of participation drawn from the evaluation literature, we report on efforts to engage maritime industry stakeholders on the Ohio River in policy implementation discussions. We find that, in addition to the benefits of deliberation noted elsewhere in the literature, such engagement can result in the identification of workable, low-cost solutions to seemingly expensive infrastructure issues.

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