在行为科学的推动下，公共政策在微观层面对公众个体的观念、思维、决策以及行为的影响机制成为公共管理学界的重要理论命题，亦是以中国公共政策实践来验证与发展政策科学理论的重要方向。本项目拟以重大工程选址决策为例，通过选择核电工程、化工项目（PX项目）工程、垃圾处理工程三个子案例，主要采用实验室实验与问卷实验两种实验方法相结合的研究路径方法，探索在重大工程选址决策过程中公众参与作为一种制度安排对公的接受度，以及公众参与对公众的政府信任、科学素养、政治效能感等深层观念的影响机理，并提出基于中国情境下公众参与的政策反馈机制的中层理论框架.本项目在此基础上进一步挖掘公众在公共议题中的思维决策模式以及外界制度刺激对公众决策思维模式的触发机制与影响机理。本项目为更为全面理解转型期中国公共政策过程中公众参与的功能与效果、我国公众个体参与公共管理实践的思维与决策模式提供理论借鉴。

With the development of behavioral science, the mechanisms on that how public policies influence public opinion and behavior at micro level have been proposed as an important of theoretical question in public management research field, and also one of future research directions based on the evidence from China’s public policy practices. Conducting the cases from several key projects, nuclear power project, chemical project (PX project) and waste project, this study is intended to explore that how public participation, as a kind of institutional arrangement, influences public acceptance of projects, and some kinds of “deep public opinion” including government trust, public understanding of science, political efficacy, economy expectations and so on. We will conduct two kinds of experimentation methods, laboratory experiment and survey experiment, to explore the causal inference on the policy feedback effects. After that, this study aims to propose a meso theoretical framework on policy feedback mechanisms under the context of China' system. Finely, we will explore the characteristics of individual’s decision-making model and the mechanisms that how policy stimulus influence individual’s decision-making model, and tries to make the contributions on behavioral public policy studies. We hope to contribute to comprehensively understanding the functions and effects of public participation in China’s policy process, and individuals’ decision-making model in public policy process.