Public hearings as a tool to improve participation in regulatory policies: case study of the National Agency of Electric Energy

The participation of citizens in public policies is an opportunity not only to educate them, but also to increase their empowerment. However, the best way for deploying participatory policies, defining their scope and approach, still remains an open and continuous debate. Using as a case study the Brazilian National Agency of Electric Energy (Aneel), with its public hearings about tariff review, this paper aims at analyzing the democratic aspects of these hearings and challenges the hypothesis of many scholars about the social participation bias in this kind of procedure. This study points out a majority participation of experts, contrasting with the political content of discussions. And, this way, it contributes to a critical analysis of the public hearings as a participatory tool, indicating their strengths and their aspects which deserve a special attention.

Investigation of Nazi propaganda activities and investigation of certain other propaganda activities : extracts from public hearings before the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Seventy-third Congress, second session, at Washington D.C., December 29, 1934 : Statement of Walter S. Steele.

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The statement of Dr. W.F. Libby before Special Subcommittee on Radiation, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy public hearings on the biological and environmental effects of nuclear war.

"Health and Safety."

Youth driving without impairment: report on the youth impaired driving public hearings - a community challenge.

Mode of access: Internet.

Willamette River Basin, Oregon; review report. Transcript of public hearings held by Willamette Basin Task Force...1963.

Vol. 2: Appendix.

Upper Snake River Basin: Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon. Public hearings. Boise, Idaho, U. S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Region 1.

Hearings held at Idaho Falls, Idaho, Dec. 7, 1960; Twin Falls, Idaho, Dec. 8, 1960; Caldwell, Idaho, Dec. 9, 1960.

Report of Commission on Revision of the Public Service Commissions Law : together with separate reports of commissioners and counsel and public hearings and exhibits.

"Memoranda on public utilities. Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland": v. 1, pt. 1, p. 423-506.

Report of the Joint legislative committee to investigate the administration and enforcement of the law. Pursuant to resolution of May 7, 1937, extended to March 1, 1939 [and Exhibits referred to but not included in report and public hearings]

John J. McNaboe, chairman. His autograph presentation copy to Col. Desmond O'Keefe.

Statements at public hearings of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future.

Mode of access: Internet.

"Maintenance of blood supplies in Illinois" : transcript of public hearings /

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Notice of public hearings on the draft definition of schooling and proposed statements for student learning April 30 and May 1, 1984 : What students should at least know and be able to do as a consequence of schooling /

"April 1984"-- Cover, p. [2].

Public hearings on the draft NPDES permit for surface discharging private sewage disposal systems : Common Q & A.

"December 2006"

Public hearings before the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense : July 1988 - December 1988 : Jacksonville, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia; Seattle, Washington; New York, New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; Long Beach, California.

Item 1061-N.

Public hearings before the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense : February 1987-July 1987.

Item 1061-N

State Board of Education hearings on the fiscal condition of Illinois public schools.

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