The Gap of Citizen Participation: The Case of Jian-Chen Roundabout

• Main Authors: Wei-Chien Liang, 梁瑋倩
• Other Authors: Hen-Chin Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65365171491517082350

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 公共行政學系公共政策碩士班 === 96 === Citizen participation has been mandated in many public policies and programs. Citizens have been involved more directly into administrative practice. According to this comment about citizen participation, that provoke author to study the policy of Jian-Chen Roundabout in Taipei City. Jian-Chen Roundabout is a landmark in Taipei City, so it is an interesting policy for citizens. The participation process includes many participants, civil servants, citizens, and architects. Taipei City Government convenes the public meeting with the rule of law. However, it is regretful that policy cannot be succeeded. Therefore, the author wants to study how participation gap happened in public meeting, the amount of information available, the deliberation of government is not enough, so that result in low response or the decision of government to include the opinion of the citizens is not enough. In implementing the study, the author conducted documentary analysis and in-depth interview with major participants. According to the research result, the author points out four reasons that make participation gap happen: the autonomy and deliberation of government, the institutionalization of public meeting, architects’ ideal and the capability and attitude of citizens. The research finding in terms of participation gap can be summarized as follows: the spirit of rule of law that limited the deliberation of government, so that government cannot do well, the institutionalization of public meeting need to promote the substance meaning, technocracy cannot be appreciated the importance of citizen participation, and the capability of participatory governance of citizens need to upgrade.