Dissertation Research: Participation in Environmental Decision-Making in Rural Communities in the Czech Republic

论文研究：捷克共和国农村社区环境决策的参与

• 批准号: 9618725
• 负责人: Richard Andrews
• 金额: $ 0.84万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-02-01 至 1999-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9618725&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Participation; Environmental; Decision

This dissertation examines how resources, political structure, and collective values contribute to different styles of participation in environmental decision making in rural communities in the Czech Republic. It uses several theoretical frameworks; resource mobilization, political opportunity structure, and framing, and hypothesizes that different levels and combinations of resources and opportunities are associated with specific types of political behavior: confrontation, institutional mechanisms, and silence. It maintains that values, interests, and beliefs communicated in public presentations moderate the predicted relationships. The fieldwork uses survey and case study methods. Employees of the Institute for Public Opinion Research in the Czech Republic will be trained and conduct the interviews. Data bases and archival sources will be used to address relevant demographic variables and supplement information collected in the survey. The information sources will be supplemented by qualitative fieldwork, providing a series of comparative case studies of proposed developments in locations where community members had different reactions to similar proposals. The dissertation should contribute to social theory and public policy, by providing a basis for refining the structure of institutions and political processes in order to facilitate community participation.

本论文研究了资源、政治结构和集体价值观如何影响捷克共和国农村社区环境决策的不同参与方式。 它使用了多种理论框架；资源动员、政治机会结构和框架，并假设资源和机会的不同层次和组合与特定类型的政治行为相关：对抗、制度机制和沉默。 它认为，公开演讲中传达的价值观、兴趣和信仰会调节预测的关系。 实地考察采用调查和案例研究方法。 捷克共和国民意研究所的员工将接受培训并进行采访。 数据库和档案来源将用于解决相关的人口统计变量并补充调查中收集的信息。 信息来源将得到定性实地工作的补充，提供一系列社区成员对类似提案有不同反应的地点的拟议开发项目的比较案例研究。 论文应为社会理论和公共政策做出贡献，为完善机构和政治进程的结构提供基础，以促进社区参与。