TITLE:
Public Participation, System Construction and Satisfaction of Democratic Decision-Making —Taking the Relocation Community of Beijing Disaster-Prone Villages as an Example
AUTHORS:
Yilin Ye, Jichao Wang, Yifan Cao
KEYWORDS:
Disaster-Prone Village Relocation, Public Participation, System Construction, Democratic Decision-Making Satisfaction
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.11 No.4,
October
18,
2021
ABSTRACT: In this study, we discussed residents’ satisfaction with democratic
decision-making in the process of relocation of disaster-prone villages in
Beijing from two dimensions which were public participation and system
construction. Through the analysis of the ordered logit model, it was confirmed
that the variables of residents’
participation and community system construction were significantly positively
correlated with the satisfaction variables of democratic decision-making. There
were some problems in the democratic decision-making in the process of
relocation of disaster-prone villages in Beijing, such as inconsistent
decision-making content and residents’ attention, weak participation
consciousness, single form, poor channel, and imperfect legal system
construction. Based on these, we put forward the following policy
recommendations: 1) Bring industrial development and major livelihood issues
into the content system of democratic decision-making; 2) Enrich the forms of democratic decision-making, increase
decision-making channels, and enhance residents’ enthusiasm for participation; 3) Strengthen the system construction, so that democratic
decision-making could be based on laws and regulations.