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Reputation-based Governance, First Monday, September 2007
Two recent conferences where papers on Reputation-Based Governance were presented:
1) First World Meeting of the Public Choice Society - Amsterdam, 29 March - 1 April 2007
- Paper: The Reputational Budget and its Uses (PDF) Author: Lucio Picci
2) IST-Africa 2007 Conference & Exhibition, Maputo, Mozambique, 9-11 May 2007
- Paper: Rebag-Ware: Reputation-based Governance of Public Works (PDF) Authors: Roberto Confalonieri, Cristiano Leoni and Lucio Picci
Reputation-based Governance
Reputation-based governance (or "Rebag") is a comprehensive framework, based on the use of Internet technologies, to address governance issues. At the heart of Rebag there is a coherent computation and treatment of the reputation of the actors of governance.
Here is a very brief explanation of Rebag.
This article is a good summary of the main themes touched upon by the project.
See also Picci, Lucio (2006), Reputation-based Governance: A Primer (PDF file).
A draft of a book titled Reputation-based Governance should be available in draft form by mid-2007.
To learn more about Reputation-based Governance and related concepts, read the documentation page.
Some recent papers:
- Picci, Lucio (2007), The Reputational Budget and its Uses. To be presented at the First World Meeting of the Public Choice Society Amsterdam, March 29 - April 1, 2007
- Confalonieri, Roberto; Leoni, Cristiano; Picci, Lucio (2007) Rebag-Ware: Reputation-based Governance of Public Works. To be presented at the IST-Africa 2007 Conference & Exhibition, Maputo, Mozambique, 9-11 May 2007.
- Picci, Lucio (2006), Reputation-based Governance of Public Works. (PDF file) Paper presented at the II International Public Procurement Conference - September 21-23, 2006. Rome, Italy. Published in
G. Piga and Khi V. Thai, Economics of Public Procurement, Palgrave. The same paper appeared in "Rivista di Politica Economica".
Issues
Rebag, being a comprehensive framework, has to do with several issues. Here is a list of the most relevant ones.
- A shift in the production of statistical information. Rebag changes the way we obtain and represent quantitative information on variables that are relevant to policies.
- New methods for the evaluation of public policies. Rebag allows for a new approach to the assesment of the effects of policies..
- Democratic participation. Rebag is based on the presence of structured activities, i.e., on procedures that allow citizens to express structured opinions on policies affecting them, within a framework where such opinions are made to import. These, in principle, allow for both participatory design and participatory budgeting activities.
- Public procurement. Rebag provides the appropriate framework to trasform public procurement, by introducing a higher degree of accountability both of firms and of the public officials interacting with them.
- Rents and corruption. Rebag raises the costs of carrying out rent-seeking and corruption activities. It also provides a framework to compute on a regular basis objective (i.e., based on hard data) corruption-related measures.
- Public vs. private provision of services. The adoption of Rebag could influence the choice of the method of provision - public vs. private - of utilities and other goods and services.
- Economic Planning. Rebag, with its strong incentives and data abundance, may lend itself to a reconsideration of the debate on planned economies.
- System-wide transformations. When the prevalent model of governance is reputation-based, individual changes would interact and add to each other in a systematic way. An interesting endeavour, then, is the attempt to visualize and describe such a systematic changes.
Project Managemenent
Here you can learn about the current efforts and, hopefully soon, about how to contribute to the project.
Rebag Ware
Rebag Ware is the software we are developing to support Rebag.
Play with Rebag-Ware 1.0 and read the paper Rebag-Ware: Reputation-based Governance of Public Works, by Roberto Confalonieri, Cristiano Leoni and Lucio Picci
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