Crafting Policies Together: Citizen Preferences After Crisis

• Autores: Clerici, Paula Andrea; Cyr, Jennifer Marie; Suárez Cao, Julieta; Bianchi, Matías
• Año de publicación: 2025
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: COLLABORATIVE POLICY DESIGN; CONJOINT EXPERIMENT; PUBLIC OPINION; BEHAVIOUR
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Do citizens prefer national policies that are designed collaboratively over those produced by national government alone? The question is relevant, especially in Latin America, where citizens are sceptical of government’s capacity to address complex problems. In this article, we hypothesize that collaboratively crafted policies will be preferred over those produced by government alone in Argentina and Chile. We design conjoint experiments that ask respondents to choose among three pairs of policies, each of which varies randomly in terms of whether and with whom the government collaborates. We find that citizens in both countries tend to prefer collaboratively produced policies. This is especially the case when citizens have higher levels of trust in the actors with whom the national government collaborates. One important insight of our study is that, despite the costs of collaborative approaches to policymaking, citizen preferences for it could incentivize national governments to invest more resources in collaborative governance.
Fil: Clerici, Paula Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Departamento de Cs.politica y Estudios Internacionales. Prog.de Estudios Electorales y Legislativos; Argentina
Fil: Cyr, Jennifer Marie. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales; Argentina
Fil: Suárez Cao, Julieta. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Chile
Fil: Bianchi, Matías. No especifíca;