Chapter 7 Conclusions and Suggestions
7.4 Implications for Future Research
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7.4 Implications for Future Research
This study aims to understand the citizen participation and interaction between the residents and the local government in the Qingquan Scenic Area during the Second Overall Review of the Qingquan Scenic Area Project. In this study, some aspects that could not be explored in detail deserve to be addressed in associated follow-up studies.
1. In this study, in the case of the protest by the vendors revealed the presence of many political factions in the community. These factions had an impact on citizen participation in Qingquan. In the general community, the majority of citizen participation is currently limited to the small number of local elites.
Representation of the public opinions of each faction is not equal, so it is difficult to integrate all the opinions. Therefore, one area to explore further is the principal parts of participation in the community and the integration of the main opinions of the organizations within the community.
2. Article 7 of the Aboriginal Autonomous Law dictates, according to the principle of regional self-determination, that aborigines should have control of their political and economic statuses, and all social, cultural and personal matters.
Therefore, for true self-government, aboriginal should be governed by aborigines including the areas of general policy and public affairs. Under aboriginal self-government, the policy decision-making process would be different from the general public policy process. How would citizen participation be different? Can aboriginal self-government enhance aboriginal participation? This is also a fascinating area for follow-up study.
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1. Interview Questions for Government Officers
(1) What aspects did you consider in drawing up the project?
Professional or localization？
Professional or localization?
Were there conflicts between these two aspects?
(2) Do you understand the meaning and spirit of citizen participation?
What are the conditions and styles of citizen participation?
(3) Please talk about the vendors’ problems.
(4) Describe the process and situation of participation.
(5) Describe the relationship with the local residents during the planning process.
What role did the government department play?
Describe the Communication process and results.
(6) How can citizen participation in public affairs be promoted and helped?
What method is better for promotion?(e.g., subsidies or popularization) (7) Were you able to receive citizens’ opinions accurately during the reconstruction
process?
Is the style of citizen participation a good way for the citizens to express their opinions?
Do you have better ideas about the citizen participation technique?
(8) What are your expectations for the Qingquan Scenic Area?
Are you satisfied with the planning result？
(9) According to your experience, what is the difficulty with citizen participation in an aboriginal village?
How can the problem of culture differences be solved?
How can the dissemination of information be improved?
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2. Interview Questions for Local Representatives (1) What’s your role and function in this community?
(2) Do you understand the meaning and spirit of citizen participation?
What are the conditions and styles of citizen participation?
What style of citizen participation did you expect?
(3) Describe the process and situation of participation.
Were your suggestions adopted?
How did you learn about the public meeting?
What difficulties did you encounter during the participation process?
(4) Describe the relationship between the local residents and the government during reconstruction process.
How did local residents interact with government?
How did government interact with local residents?
(5) How did the government promote and help local residents to participate in public affairs during reconstruction process?
Which methods do you apply?
How did you collect the opinions of the majority of the residents?
How did you help disadvantaged people express their opinions?
(6) What were your expectations of the recovery results?
Do you think the results of the reconstruction of the project met your expectations?
Do you have any suggestions about the outcome of the reconstruction?
Please talk about the vendors’ problems.
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3. Interview Questions for Residents (1) What’s your background?
Age, job, and education.
(2) Do you understand the meaning and spirit of citizen participation?
What are the conditions and styles of citizen participation?
What style of citizen participation did you expect?
(3) Describe the process and situation of participation.
Were your suggestions adopted?
How did you learn about the public meeting?
What difficulties did you encunter during the participation process?
(4) Describe the relationship with the local representatives and government during reconstruction process.
How did local representatives interact with the government?
How did the government interact with local representatives?
(5) What were your expectations of the planning results?
Do you think the results of the project met your expectations?
Do you have any suggestions about the outcome of the reconstruction?
What are your ideas about the vendors？