Citizen perceptions of the success or failure of public participation efforts are an important but often unexplored element in evaluating the quality of such participation. Interviews with participants in Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored water quality planning projects in Texas reveal a number of factors that cause citizens to perceive their participative efforts negatively. The experience of these participants forms the basis of recommendations for more effective management of governmentally supported public participation programs.
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Plumlee et al. (1985) studied this question.
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