Abstract
This article reports a pioneering case study of a crowdsourced law-reform process in Finland. In the crowdsourcing
experiment, the public was invited to contribute to the law-reform process by sharing their knowledge and ideas for
a better policy. This article introduces a normative design framework of five principles for crowdsourced
policymaking: inclusiveness, accountability, transparency, modularity, and synthesis. Inclusiveness, accountability,
and transparency are overarching principles for crowdsourced policymaking. Modularity and synthesis support
these overarching principles and are instrumental in achieving the main goals of crowdsourced policymaking,
namely, an efficient search for knowledge and democratic deliberation among the participants. These principles
apply to both the design of the process and the medium that the process takes place in, i.e., the technology
facilitating crowdsourcing. This article analyzes the design of the crowdsourced off-road traffic law experiment in
Finland using the five principles described above and provides a future research agenda for examining design
aspects in crowdsourced policymaking.