Conditions of community governance through the cognitive legitimacy to maintain and manage urban public goods

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23730474
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: DOMEN TAKAHIRO 一橋大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 准教授 (80397059)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 都市公共財 / コミュニティ・ガバナンス / 正当性認識

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to clarify conditions of community governance through the cognitive legitimacy to maintain and manage urban public goods. It is possible that the simplest explanation, whether residents take part in activities of community governance, is determined by the differences between benefit from urban public goods and cost to maintain and manage them. In contrast, in this study, the cognitive legitimacy, that residents feel they have a right to implement community governance, also withdraws the behaviors of the community governance. Moreover, it seems that the cognitive legitimacy is enhanced by the cognition about ownership of its urban public goods, the experience about establishment of rule to regulate illegitimate construction, and approval from a local government to maintain and manage them.

Free Research Field

社会科学