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

本文探讨了资源，政治结构和集体价值观如何在捷克共和国农村社区参与环境决策的不同风格。 它使用了几个理论框架：资源动员，政治机会结构和框架，并假设不同水平和组合的资源和机会与特定类型的政治行为：对抗，制度机制和沉默。 它认为，价值观，利益和信仰在公开演讲中沟通缓和预测的关系。 实地考察采用调查和个案研究的方法。 捷克共和国民意研究所的工作人员将接受培训并进行访谈。 将利用数据库和档案来源来处理有关的人口变数和补充调查中收集的资料。 信息来源将辅以定性实地工作，提供一系列社区成员对类似建议有不同反应的地点的拟议发展的比较案例研究。 论文应有助于社会理论和公共政策，通过提供完善机构和政治进程的结构，以促进社区参与的基础。

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.