2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
RESEARCH ON THE CONDITIONS OR SOCIAL CAPITALS OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEMOCRACY IN JAPAN
| Project/Area Number |
12620082
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | EHIME UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
KITAHARA Tetsuya EHIME UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF LAW AND LETTERS, PROFESSOR, 法文学部, 教授 (10136301)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | URBAN PLANNING / DEMOCRACY / SOCIAL CAPITAL / POLITICAL CULTURE / LAND-ADJUSTMENT PROJECT / R.PUTNAM |
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| Research Abstract |
This research investigated the conditions of Japanese democracy on the analysis of urban planning, especially land-adjustment projects. Below are the findings of the research.
1. The quantitative analysis of the land readjustments projects among prefectures in Japan presented that the determinant factors of numbers and performance of land-readjustment projects are the different localities (the east Japan- west Japan etc.) and different degrees of urbanization, not "social capital" such as civic associations. Comparative analysis of prefectures was too large to be analyzed in a meaningful way (R.Putnam's analysis of states in USA, but the analysis seem meaningless).
2. The case-studies of the cities such as Osaka, Nagoya, Matsuyama, and Tottori etc.showed below :
1) The found causality : number and performance of projects ← attitudes and behavior of participants (officials, residents and farmer's cooperatives) ←local history and experiences of projects, behavior and ideas of economic rationality, and residents' trust on the public administrations etc.
2) The conditions of good projects such as residents' trust on the public administrations, communal consciousness and economic and rational orientation are the conditions of democracy. The experiences of projects produced political feasibility of residents which is essential of democracy.
3) The limits of Japanese democracy are the low level of general trust which democracy is based on. The trust found in land-adjustments is on concrete and communal interests.
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