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Giving Consumers a Say in Policy Development: Influencing Policy or Just Being Heard?

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This paper focuses on the trend to involve consumers in public policy-making and implementation. The development of long-term care policies for elderly people in Ontario is examined as an illustrative case to explore the purposes and accomplishments of such initiatives. Building upon analysis of policy documents, observation of a community consultation process and debates in the literature on consumer participation and on the politics of needs interpretation, it is suggested that government-initiated participatory strategies elicit only particular kinds of information from consumers and do not live up to their democratizing promise.

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  • Jane Aronson, 1993. "Giving Consumers a Say in Policy Development: Influencing Policy or Just Being Heard?," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 19(4), pages 367-378, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:19:y:1993:i:4:p:367-378
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    1. Pivik, Jayne & Rode, Elisabeth & Ward, Christopher, 2004. "A consumer involvement model for health technology assessment in Canada," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 69(2), pages 253-268, August.
    2. Abelson, Julia & Giacomini, Mita & Lehoux, Pascale & Gauvin, Francois-Pierre, 2007. "Bringing `the public' into health technology assessment and coverage policy decisions: From principles to practice," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(1), pages 37-50, June.
    3. Elina Weiste & Sari Käpykangas & Lise-Lotte Uusitalo & Melisa Stevanovic, 2020. "Being Heard, Exerting Influence, or Knowing How to Play the Game? Expectations of Client Involvement among Social and Health Care Professionals and Clients," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(16), pages 1-19, August.

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