2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Comparative approarch on the institution and the practice of citizen participation in the local government in Japan and Western countries.
| Project/Area Number |
24530150
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Tokai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 政治学 / 行政学 / 地方自治 / 基礎的自治体 / 住民参加 / 比較研究 / 市民教育 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Through a comparison of the municipalities in Japan and selected Western countries (the USA, England, Germany and Switzerland), this study clarified that the political participatory mechanisms of referendums and initiatives have a strong influence in the policy process of a municipality, and that political education or citizenship education is needed to improve the political judgment of voters and to deepen democracies. Moreover, this study insisted that political education or citizenship education is needed not only for children and young people, but also for adults.
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| Free Research Field |
社会科学
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