Research on the impact of repeated random samplings and deliberation on awareness and behavior toward citizens' participation in urban development

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K14091
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Town planning/Architectural planning
• Research Institution: Nanzan University
• Principal Investigator: MAEDA Hiroe 南山大学, 総合政策学部, 准教授 (70611094)
• Research Collaborator: SHINOTO Akinori (80310952) ; ITO Masaharu 大久手計画工房, 取締役
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 無作為抽出 / 熟議 / ミニ・パブリックス / 市民討議会 / 参加意図 / コミュニケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, a case study of the Shimin Togikai (citizen deliberation meetings) of Toyoyama in Aichi Prefecture, a survey was conducted in April 2016 on a random sample of 2000 Toyoyama townspeople, who were non-participants, and 202 participants from FY2011 to FY2015 of the Shimin Togikai.
The survey involved an evaluation of the procedural fairness in the Shimin Togikai, the attitude and behavior toward citizen participation, and the related psychological factors. From the results, it was clear that participants of each year were encouraged by the participants of the previous year in their communication. In addition, although non-participants showed little intention of participating in the public meetings of the committee, they showed a comparatively high intention of participating in the activities proposed by the Shimin Togikai. Non-participants too realized the necessity of citizen participation and its procedural fairness and made positive evaluations of the Shimin Togikai.

Free Research Field

環境社会心理学