Integrating Extreme Users in Co-Design: Challenges and Recommendations

Public participation in the legislative process is essential in any democratic nation. Transparency and openness are vital for state administrators to facilitate community involvement in shaping government policies. The regulatory framework for community participation is established in Law No. 13 of 2022 as a direct consequence of Constitutional Court Decision No. 91/PUU-XVIII/2020, using the term "meaningful participation." Meaningful participation takes two forms: offline and online. This discussion focuses solely on the online aspect, specifically on utilising the official website of the People's Representative Council (DPR), dpr.go.id. The assessment of the dpr.go.id page indicates the DPR's commitment to fostering meaningful online participation. This study employs normative juridical research methods, utilising a statutory and conceptual approach. The findings suggest that while meaningful participation has been normatively regulated in constitutional court decisions and laws, the technical implementation to actualise these norms is lacking in practice. In the future, the DPR needs to carry out uniform terminology used by the DPR, both in-laws and on the DPR go.id page, by following the terms used in the court decision so that meaningful online participation can be realised for the public to be able to participate more meaningfully.

The field of peacebuilding evaluation has evolved over time in response to the complex nature of peace efforts. However, it still predominantly relies on evaluation models that aim to measure discrete peace outcomes adhering to rigid notions of rigour. The inclusive rigour framework presented in this article responds to this challenge, adding to complexity-aware and epistemologically plural approaches to build credible causal explanations in conditions of uncertainty. It identifies three interconnected domains of evaluation design and practice: effective methodological bricolage, meaningful participation and inclusion, utilisation and impact. Rigour here is not defined by methodological choice alone, but rather, relies on an active view of evolving methodological choices throughout an iterative process as maximum use value and meaningful participation are sought. Using three cases, we highlight the critical role of partnership arrangements and associated evaluation cultures and mindsets underpinned by power dynamics that enable or hinder the practice of inclusive rigour.

Successful Community Participation in Climate Change Adaptation Programs: on Whose Terms?

This study investigates how youth are navigating the regional and global Internet governance spaces using the Pyramid of Participation framework as proposed by the author, which is built on Arnstein's ladder. By understanding how youth participate in these spaces, this study seeks to understand the dynamics of meaningful youth participation by using the Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance (YOUthDIG) as an exploratory case study. The findings reveal that The Pyramid of Participation outlined in this paper provides a visual framework for decision makers to reflect on where and how participants engage with the process. This Pyramid of Participation also acknowledges that when there is no meaningful participation, that participants will choose to discontinue their participation and this motivation requires reflection on where we can enhance processes and change attitudes to ensure a better informed group of stakeholders and empowered actors.

Climate performance indices play a crucial role in evaluating countries’ efforts and advancing global environmental governance. This study critically examines disparities among prominent climate performance indices, including the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), and Climate Action Tracker (CAT). Our analysis reveals significant divergences in country rankings, particularly between ‘developed’ and ‘least developed’ nations, underscoring how subjective methodological choices impact indices’ results and their interpretation. We develop an analytic tool, called EPI-equity, to demonstrate how integrating equity principles can substantially alter performance assessments. We furthermore propose a novel conceptual framework to classify indices based on the choice of methodological framework and embedded normative choices, highlighting how these can shape the interpretation of performance. These results allow the contextualization of outcomes of climate performance indices and the degree to which they concur with one another. Thus, this framework helps translate methodological choices into a conceptual understanding of what an index truly measures. We propose that explicitly articulating the normative choices embodied by performance indices can enhance transparency, guide developers in aligning methodological choices with intended interpretations, and equip users with a clearer understanding of the results. Our analysis highlights the importance of employing multiple indices that encompass a range of normative choices for a comprehensive evaluation of countries’ climate performance. This adaptable framework provides a structured approach to guide the selection of indices spanning a broad spectrum of viewpoints, and, thereby, mitigates the likelihood of conflicts arising from fragmented worldviews on complex socio-environmental issues.

Meaningful participation for children in the Dutch child protection system: A critical analysis of relevant provisions in policy documents

A response to DePalma and Ringer's article “Toward a theory of adaptive transfer: Expanding disciplinary discussions of ‘transfer’ in second-language writing and composition studies”

Climate neutrality is one of the greatest challenges of our century, and a decarbonised energy system is a key step towards this goal. To this end, the electricity system is expected to become more interconnected, digitalised, and flexible by engaging consumers both through microgeneration and through demand side flexibility. A successful use of these flexibility tools depends widely on the evaluation of their effects, hence the definition of methods to assess and evaluate them is essential for their implementation. In order to enable a reliable assessment of the benefits from participating in demand response, it is necessary to define a reference value (“baseline”) to allow for a fair comparison. Different methodologies have been investigated, developed, and adopted for estimating the customer baseline load. The article presents a structured overview of methods for the estimating the customer baseline load, based on a review of academic literature, existing standardisation efforts, and lessons from use cases. In particular, the article describes and focuses on the different baseline methods applied in some European H2020 projects, showing the results achieved in terms of measurement accuracy and costs in real test cases. The most suitable methodology choice among the several available depends on many factors. Some of them can be the function of the Demand Response (DR) service in the system, the broader regulatory framework for DR participation in wholesale markets, or the DR providers characteristics, and this list is not exclusive. The evaluation shows that the baseline methodology choice presents a trade-off among complexity, accuracy, and cost.

Most education and social science research methodology texts offer detailed and often prescriptive advice to higher degree students generally following established paradigmatic frameworks for qualitative and/or qualitative research. Lived Experience and Educational Research Methodology: Reflections on the PhD Journey offers instead a set of retrospective narrative accounts of the complex lived process of developing a thesis project in the field of education. Challenging myths, stereotypes and related linear research imaginaries, the focus of this book is both the particular, messy, located research problems that tend to drive education research as well as how differently positioned recent graduates situated their academic writing in relation to their diverse ethical and personal commitments, theoretical and political passions, methodological choices and community membership.Each chapter in this book is a narrative account of the how-did rather than the how-to of qualitative social science dissertation writing in the field of education. Lived Experience and Educational Research Methodology: Reflections on the PhD Journey also demonstrates how doctoral writing reflects both experiential politics, but also geographic location. The authors in this collection are graduates of a small, technologically hybrid, rural-regional doctoral program which is both unique to its place, but also representative of a growing number of non-metropolitan higher degree programs explicitly designed to provide broad access to populations that are geographically and otherwise marginalized from/in established metropolitan institutions.

Adaptive Challenges, Adaptive Work, and Adaptive Leadership Among Women Living With HIV in the Southern United States: Findings From a Qualitative Study.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of Indonesian government e-participation platforms developed after the Constitutional Court Decision 91/PUU-XVIII/2020. The central question is whether these digital portals fulfill the Court’s new ‘meaningful participation’ mandate, which comprises the rights to be heard, considered, and explained, or if they merely represent ‘digital tokenism.’ This study employs a normative legal research methodology, combining a statute approach, analysis of the Court’s legal reasoning, and a conceptual framework of participation. A qualitative gap analysis was performed on government case study platforms. The findings reveal that the ideal juridical standard requires a two-way, auditable system with features for submission tracking, public feedback, and response. However, the existing platforms are legally ineffective. They only satisfy the superficial right to be heard via simple submission forms but completely lack the mechanisms to verify the right to be considered or fulfill the right to be explained. The study concludes that this practice is a form of digital tokenism, creating a procedural ritual that fails the constitutional mandate. This failure constitutes a significant formal procedural defect, placing the resulting legislation at high risk of constitutional challenge.

While intra-Afghan talks have started, sustainable peace is still a distant reality in Afghanistan. Ongoing peace efforts ignore women’s meaningful participation: women are included in only one in every five meetings. Evidence shows that when women have a meaningful role in peace negotiations, peace is more sustainable. Afghan and international actors must stress the importance of including women in all stages of formal and informal talks at national and local levels. This research paper uses the seven modalities of the Broadening Participation framework to identify practical ways to include Afghan women meaningfully and pave the way for inclusive peacebuilding.

This editorial urges a shift in science education research from deficit‐oriented framings, which portray learners in terms of what they lack, to asset‐based perspectives that recognize and build on the cultural, social, and cognitive resources learners bring. Deficit framings obscure diverse ways of knowing and reinforce systemic inequities through narrow accountability structures. Drawing on recent studies, we show how asset perspectives can reveal learners' strengths, challenge dominant norms, and support equity‐focused educational change. We provide practical guidance for designing asset‐framed research questions, selecting appropriate theoretical lenses, and making methodological choices that center participants' voices and contexts. Reflecting on our own prior work, we illustrate how reframing findings around existing strengths can transform both analysis and implications. By advancing research that honors learners' competencies, identities, and experiences, the field can promote inclusion, justice, and meaningful participation in science.

Shared Power, Shared Benefits? Reviewing private sector collaborations with community actors in Sub-Saharan Africa's mini grid sector

<i>Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power</i>by Joseph Margulies