Why people participate in online political crowdfunding: A civic voluntarism perspective

Kusumarani, Riri; Zo, Hangjung

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2019.04.011

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“…Civic crowdfunding is a recent development in which individuals raise money using technology (Bastian 2015;Kusumarani and Zo 2019). A crowdfunding platform offers technical facilities for people who want to initiate a certain project (for example, a playground in their neighborhood).…”

Section: The Attention For Civic Crowdfundingmentioning

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“…It fosters the engagement of citizens in a variety of ways. Citizens can participate on a small scale (Kusumarani and Zo 2019) by donating a small amount of money. Furthermore, civic crowdfunding increases the possibility of involvement by offering help to a certain project and rewards the collective by setting up project that foster the community (Gaventa 2002;Fischer 2000;Irvin and Stansbury 2004;Nabatchi and Leighninger 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These studies focus on different areas such as the motivation to participate in civic crowdfunding. Kusumarani and Zo (2019) reveal that both intrinsic and eccentric motivation contribute to participating in civic crowdfunding, such as rewards, recognition, fun, curiosity, or altruism. Furthermore, it is also known that the factors of the Civic Voluntarism Model (CVM) are motivators for participating in crowdfunding projects and therefore also in civic crowdfunding projects.…”

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“…Consequently, it is seen as a new form of citizen engagement in which citizens participate in planning and designing projects (Mueller et al 2018). Slightly more knowledge of the process of civic crowdfunding campaigns is now available (Brent and Lorah 2019;Cho et al 2020;Kusumarani and Zo 2019). Despite this, there is still little empirical evidence about factors that contribute to the establishment of civic crowdfunding campaigns (Stiver et al 2014;Morell et al 2020) particularly when it comes to acquiring money for such campaigns.…”

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“…By doing this, among other things, we further extend the work of Praharaj et al (2017), Brent and Lorah (2019), and Cho et al (2020), which focus mainly on demographic characteristics of the project neighborhoods. We also elaborate on the results of Charbit and Desmoulins (2017), Doan and Toledano (2017), Colasanti et al (2018), and Kusumarani and Zo (2019), who studied the influence of some campaign characteristics on the success of the funding. Moreover, the empirical analyses are based on data in the European Union, a region where governments tend to be more active in community development then in the US.…”

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By using information technology, local governments can develop alternative forms of citizen engagement. Civic crowdfunding campaigns supported by online platforms enable citizens to participate financially in social projects and can be matched with government funding. As such, an alternative for subsidies seems to be developing. In this paper, we assess empirically the success of civic crowdfunding campaigns in the Netherlands by using data collected during 2018 from 269 civic crowdfunding projects and local demographic data from the neighborhoods of these projects. The factors—the use of match-funding, the target amount of money, and the theme of the project, as well as the age structure, the province, and the degree of urbanization of the neighborhood of the civic crowdfunding project—turn out to be empirically related to the success of a civic crowdfunding campaign.

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Campaigns are also hosted on few equity-based CFPs and lendingbased CFPs (Assenmacher 2017; Catapult 2018; Wenzlaff et al. 2015; Old et al. 2019). The civic equity-based crowdfunding platform "Leih-Deiner-Stadt-Geld" (Lend money to your city) is facilitating equity investments in city property, such as an investment into firearms equipment at the city of Oestrich-Winkel (LeihDeinerStadtGeld GmbH 2012). Civic crowdfunding campaigns can be found on special-purpose CFPs, with Spacehive being the most prominent international example. Italy, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, and many other countries have seen platforms dedicated to civic crowdfunding, with a majority of platforms offering donations and pre-sales of rewards. Almost all major international reward-based platforms (like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundme) and many local reward-based platforms have introduced project categories focussing on civil purposes (Davies 2014). The German platform 'startnext', in its category called 'Community', featured projects such as the funding of a fountain in a Berlin Park or the Pacific Garbage Screening Project (Förderkreis des FEZ-Berlin e.V. 2018; PGS-Team 2018). The Italian platform Produzioni Dal Basso is an all-purpose CFP which features the category of 'Social and Community', making up 1145 projects (of 5771 projects in total) and EUR 3.6m (of 11.4m in total) and thus constituting the biggest category on the platform. It is interesting to reflect on the interaction between all-purpose CFPs and special-purpose CFPs. The history of platform-based crowdfunding cannot be summarized in this chapter, but with regard to civCF, it should be noted that the first reward-based platforms were special-purpose CFPs dedicated to music and film (Sellaband, Artistshare) which gave rise to all-purpose platforms (Kickstarter, Indiegogo). The success of platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo influenced the founding of special-purpose civCF platforms, which in turn motivated the large all-purpose platforms to introduce civCF categories. In equity-based and lending-based crowdfunding, the special-purpose CFPs developed alongside special-purpose CFPs for start-ups, energy projects, or real estate projects. However, international equity-based crowdfunding platforms like OurCrowd do not have a dedicated category to civCF campaigns. Analysing the interaction between civCF platforms and civCF categories on all-purpose CFPs merits further research since it would provide a K. Wenzlaff

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Why people participate in online political crowdfunding: A civic voluntarism perspective

Cited by 26 publications

References 81 publications

Civic Crowdfunding in Local Governments: Variables for Success in the Netherlands?

Civic Crowdfunding in Local Governments: Variables for Success in the Netherlands?

Civic Crowdfunding: Four Perspectives on the Definition of Civic Crowdfunding

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