Ham, Merel van der (2022) How Perceived Level of Voice in Public Participation Connects to Acceptability of the Decision-Making Process and Discussing Value Consequences. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Implementing environmental policies provokes resistance from the public. Therefore, public participation procedures are highly relevant for involving the public in decision-making processes. Specifically, we are interested in the relationship between discussing value consequences of a proposed carbon tax policy in a public participation procedure and one’s perceived voice (i.e., having a say). Perceiving voice influences attitudes towards the decision-making process. We suggest that participants would be more accepting of the decision-making process when perceiving higher voice. Expect is that discussing multiple value consequences, will lead to higher perceived level of voice and that discussing one’s predominant value consequences compared other consequences will result in perceiving more voice. We conducted a study (N=108) in which participants were asked to imagine their presented public participation scenario, in which certain value consequences of carbon tax policy were discussed. The value consequences were either environmental, personal or ‘both’. Results showed a positive relationship between perceived level of voice and acceptability of the decision-making process. No difference in perceived level of voice was found between being presented only environmental or personal consequences compared to both. Also, no effect was found of predominant values on the relationship between the scenario presented and perceived level of voice. Thus, perceived level of voice in public participation is relevant to the acceptability of the decision-making process. However, discussing multiple values in public participation seems to have no effect on perceived level of voice. Also, people’s predominant values did not influence the relationship between the consequences discussed and perceived level of voice. Keywords: public participation, decision-making process acceptability, values, perceived level of voice, sustainable policy
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Perlaviciute, G. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2022 15:36 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2022 15:36 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/75 |
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