How Does Citizen Participation Influence Local Community Outcomes?: Exploring Impacts of Various Participation Mechanisms on Multiple Community Outcomes in Terms of Competing Values

Abstract

Either scholars or practitioners have paid much attention to citizen participation in policy decision-making due to participatory benefits. Despite these benefits, prior studies have not examined the substantial effects of citizen participation mechanisms on local community outcomes. This study conceptualizes a variety of participation mechanisms form direct democracy provisions to informational participatory tools. It investigates that these mechanisms are mutually related to each other by producing multiple community outcomes. The results show that direct democracy provisions are connected to administrative participation mechanisms that produce effective and equitable community outcomes.