Research on Methods of Deliberative Democracy at the Local Level -Analysis of Deliberative Citizen Forum and Measures for its Improvement

研究了2006年至2010年期间在全国范围内实施审议论坛的情况，一半以上的案例是由日本国际青年会议所组织的，有几种类型的方案或组织。这些话题与市民的日常生活密切相关;我们分析了他们参与高崎和丰山案例的动机。为了对日本的情况进行国际比较，我们研究了德国的最新发展，那里已经实施了各种各样的计划单元;而在美国，“美国说话”和“凯特林基金会”支持协商民主作为一种基层民主。我们的研究结果是一个目录的质量控制和改进的DCF的标准，在不同的参与者和公平的信息等，这样我们就可以提出一个系统的质量控制，包括实施数据库和观察良好的做法。

Implementation of Deliberative Forums (DCF) on a nationwide level between 2006 and 2010 were studied, more than half of the cases being organized by the Junior Chamber International Japan with several types of programs or organization. The topics were closed to the everyday life of the citizens; we analysed their motivation for participation in the cases of Takasaki and Toyoyama. For international comparison of the Japanese cases, we studied recent development in Germany, where variations of the Plannings Cells have been implemented; while in the USA, "America Speaks" and the "Kettering Foundation" support Deliberative Democracy as a kind of grass roots democracy. The result of our studies is a catalogue of criteria for quality control and improvement of DCF as regards variety of participants and fair information among others, such that we could propose a system for quality control including the implementation of a database and observation of good practices.