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Public participation has a legitimizing effect and the potential to produce a higher level of commitment to the resulting decisions. Increased satisfaction, support, and acceptance might occur because the public believes managers better understand the public's wishes and that managers have used information gathered from the public to make better decisions, or that the procedures are fair.

What efforts would you as a public administrator use to increase public participation in the policy formulation process? Are there any dangers and/or difficulties that exist by increasing public participation? If so what are they and how would you deal with them?

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This response in brief explains the efforts that can be put by a public administrator to increase public participation in the policy formulation process. Dangers and/or difficulties that exist by increasing public participation are also discussed in short.

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Public Participation Methods
To increase public participation in policy formulation process, the public administrator requires conducting a survey over the representatives of the population at large level for the aspects, which they expect to be included in the policy. The survey will also be effective to gain the feedback of the public about the aspects, which should not be included in the policy. It will increase the satisfaction and support of the ...

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