Hutzezon, M. (2022) Citizen participation in the new Planning and Environment act. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
In the new Planning and Environment Act, the Dutch government aims to integrate many different laws to simplify the planning process. Citizen participation is also part of the new act but the act does not include how they want to involve as many citizens as possible. This is important because as Verba (1996) argues, a government needs equal responsiveness from all citizens, not only in citizen participation but also in political participation in general. This research aims to find out to what extent there is a correlation between citizen participation and political participation in order for the government to know better who will be willing to participate. Bekker and Meer (2011) argued that Dutch citizens prefer more passive political participation such as voting over more active participation such as demonstrating. This is something that was also found in the survey. People were very willing to vote but less so to participate in citizen participation. From the answers given in the survey and the statistical tests that were done with that data, it can be concluded that there is no correlation between citizen participation in the new planning act and political participation. Further research can be done by doing a similar survey with a larger sample or by gaining a better understanding of whom might want to be involved in citizen participation.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Busscher, T. |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2022 12:29 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2022 12:29 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3909 |
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