Hoekstra, Jerke (2022) The Effects of a Value Based Approach on Public Participation Scenarios: Acceptability of a Sustainable Project and Decision Making Process. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Public participation is seen as a key component for policy makers to gain more support for sustainable energy projects. Research has shown that including the public into the process of policy making has a favorable effect on projects being accepted. In this study we investigate whether a value based approach where in an experiment we varied which consequences of a sustainable policy were to be discussed during public participation contributes to making public participation more effective. We investigated this through testing if participants are more accepting of the project and decision making process when they were placed in a joint value condition instead of a single value condition. Also it is tested whether the participants were more accepting if the preexisting values matched with the value condition. Based on this value based approach we expect that the joint value condition will show higher acceptability of the project and the decision making process and we also expect the higher peoples values are the more acceptable they will be in the condition where the preexisting values matched with the value represented in the condition. We conducted an experiment (N=108) where we manipulated the information people were getting across three conditions (joint, personal and environmental). The results displayed no differences between either of the three groups and no evidence is found that the stronger people´s values the more acceptable they will find the project and the decision making process when the respective values were to be discussed during public participation. We infer that we found no proof for a value based approach for making public participation more effective.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Perlaviciute, G. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2022 11:01 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2022 11:01 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/86 |
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