The Pirate Party
How different is this with the Pirate Party, originating from Sweden and Germany, which is now also participating in the Netherlands. They use multiple democratic 'tools' to arrive at an election programme, such as the software program poland telegram data LiquidFeedback. This helps with building programme proposals and the joint selection thereof. This goes a step further than 'Join Diederik', where the party itself retains the final responsibility and makes choices. The Pirate Party's working method is a form of self-organisation, of bottom-up initiative, while the PvdA and its predecessors use a form of crowdsourcing. The approach of the Pirate Party makes the participants feel more the owner of the party programme than a helper who thinks along via an idea box, as with the PvdA.
Conclusionwe can conclude that crowdsourcing may only yield new ideas for party programs for very specific themes and questions, such as the Pirate Party. A general approach to collecting ideas, such as the PvdA, yields little or nothing. This resembles the outcome of the Trots op Nederland wiki: a party program that is very similar to that of the competitor, the VVD. You cannot gain a strategic advantage with that. However, you can organize a support base with it and possibly bind it to you. Of course, it remains to be seen whether the Pirate Party, with its self-organizing structure, will come up with innovative ideas.
Research shows that these kinds of initiatives offer citizens the opportunity to develop citizenship skills and possibly influence policy, but that managing expectations is essential. Citizens should not get the impression that their ideas will be implemented anyway. Otherwise, citizens will get a democratic 'hangover' and become disillusioned.