Effective public engagement enhances the legitimacy and fairness of decision making, which is a key overarching goal of public policy making.
However, public participation in priority setting can enhance the legitimacy and fairness of decision making [ 15], incorporate the views of the community in policy making thus revitalizing the democratic will [ 16], improve trust and confidence in the health system [ 17], and improve the quality of decision making [ 18].
"In all instances, steps are taken to avoid any conflicts of interest or anything that would compromise the fairness of decision-making".
The primary justice issue discussed in the study is the perceived fairness of decisions involving pay and promotions.
The challenge remained to defend the rationality and objectivity, the fairness of decision-making in the alternative framework.
Folger defines distributive justice as concerning the allocation of goods, for example salary and financial incentives, whereas procedural justice concerns "perceptions of the fairness of decision-making processes" [[ 59]:144].
However, clarity about the construct underlying evaluation data is a prerequisite for the validity of evaluation data as well as the fairness of decisions derived from them.
Topics include A/B testing, sequential decision making and bandits, decision theory, risk minimization and generalization, Markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, analysis of observational data, instrumental variable analysis, and algorithmic fairness of personalized decision policies.
However, a few participants expressed the view that public involvement would enhance the legitimacy and fairness of the decision making "On the other hand from a process point of view, from a transparency point of view, it is probably the deficiency in the process".
They have to rely on what their managers tell them about the fairness of pay decisions, the reasons for the decisions, and what they can count on in the future.
The interviews are the second step in operationalising H1 and H2 because they will provide us with insights into the views of those affected by the CCGs' decisions on the legitimacy and fairness of CCG decision-making.
