The Fundamentals of Policy Crowdsourcing
@article{Prpic2018TheFO, title={The Fundamentals of Policy Crowdsourcing}, author={John Prpic and Araz Taeihagh and James Melton}, journal={Information Technology \& Systems eJournal}, year={2018} }
What is the state of the research on crowdsourcing for policymaking? This article begins to answer this question by collecting, categorizing, and situating an extensive body of the extant research ...
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