A comparative study of political culture in the public relation to a local government focusing on policy

本研究的目的是通过关注政府与公民在地方政府决策过程中共享的政策信息，来探讨政府与公民之间关系的比较文化框架。公民可以通过网页获取政策系统中的规划政策信息。通过对政策信息的内容分析，我试图回答这样一个问题：我们如何向地方政府展示公民关系的地区差异？然后，针对加拿大、日本与韩国、美国的相似特征，对日加两国比较中的政策信息进行了分析。作为比较分析的研究结果，地方政府网页中用于宣传的信息量和用于解释的信息量的差异反映了公民与地方政府关系的文化差异。通过对日本和加拿大的比较发现，日本的解释信息反映了日本公民关心公共事务的文化特征。本研究的创新之处在于，研究结果没有停留在实证结果中，而是强调了一种关于公民与地方政府关系的地区差异的理论方法。本研究通过对政府网页中政策信息的文化特征的探讨，展示了政策文化作为一种新的政治文化途径。

The purpose of this research is to discuss the comparative cultural framework of relationships between a government and citizens by paying attention to the policy information shared by them in the policy process of a local administration.Citizens may acquire the information of planning policy in a policy system particularly through the web pages. By the contents analysis of the policy information I tried to answer the question ; how can we demonstrate regional difference of the citizen relation to a local administration? Then, I analyzed the policy information in the comparison of Japan and Canada by focusing on similar characteristics of Canada and Japan that are distinguished from the similar characteristics of South Korea and the United States of AmericaAs the research result of the comparative analysis, the difference between the amount of information for publicity and information for explanation in the web pages of local governments suggests the cultural difference of the citizen relation to a local administration. There, it was found from the comparison between Japan and Canada that the information for explanation in Japan reflects the Japanese cultural characteristics of the citizen concern with the public affair.The originality of this research is that the findings do not remain in the empirical results but emphasize a theoretical approach to regional difference with regard to the citizen relation to a local government. The policy culture as a new approach of political culture could be shown in this research by discussing the cultural characteristics of the policy information in the web pages of governments.