Citizen Engagement in Rulemaking : Evidence on Regulatory Practices in 185 Countries
This paper presents a new database of indicators measuring the extent to which rulemaking processes are transparent and participatory across 185 countries. The data look at how citizen engagement happens in practice, including when and how governme...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26822009/citizen-engagement-rulemaking-evidence-regulatory-practices-185-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25154 |
| Summary: | This paper presents a new database of
indicators measuring the extent to which rulemaking
processes are transparent and participatory across 185
countries. The data look at how citizen engagement happens
in practice, including when and how governments open the
policy-making process to public input. The data also capture
the use of ex ante assessments to determine the possible
cost of compliance with a proposed new regulation, the
likely administrative burden of enforcing the regulation,
and its potential environmental and social impacts. The data
show that citizens have more opportunities to participate
directly in the rulemaking process in developed economies
than in developing ones. Differences are also apparent among
regions: rulemaking processes are significantly less
transparent and inclusive in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle
East and North Africa, and South Asia on average than in
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
high-income countries, Europe and Central Asia, and East
Asia and the Pacific. In addition, ex ante impact
assessments are much more common among higher-income
economies than among lower-income ones. And greater citizen
engagement in rulemaking is associated with higher-quality
regulation, stronger democratic regimes, and less corrupt institutions. |
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