2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Macrojustice approach to managing conflict in public works project

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20530574
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Social psychology
Research Institution	Yamagata University
Principal Investigator	FUKUNO Mitsuteru Yamagata University, 人文学部, 准教授 (30333769)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	公正
Research Abstract	In public works projects, one of critical issues we should consider is how to manage social conflicts between local governments to promote benefit of overall society and involved parties who have to pay the cost of inconvenience for the projects. We assumed that these social conflicts are viewed as collusion of interests between the macrojustice motive by the governments and the microjustice motive by the parties against these policies. We investigated whether citizens perceived the conflicts among public works projects as disagreement between macro and microjustice with a web survey, and found that this hypothesis were partially supported.

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