Abstract
This study tried to obtain solutions on four subjects : Tbackground and meaning of resident participation, (2) the method for effectively conduct of resident participation, (3) problemsregarding resident participation. and (4) the grasping of the influence factors of local government officers' consciousness concerning resident participation. An outline of the main results are as follows.
1) Many local government officers strongly recognize the needs of resident participation. Regarding the background of their support, there are such recognition of the realities as problems solution by the assembly or the top-down approach which have run into a stand-still due to the rapidly changing of the sense of values, life-style and behavior patterns of rural residents.
2) Many local government officers think that resident participation not causing any serious problems. It is commonly thought that resident participation will produce such ploblems asan infringement of the role and authority of the assembly, dispersion of leadership of the local government andencouragement of the egoism of the residents. However, it became clear that almost all of them do not worry about occurrence of such problems.
3) Many local government officers evaluate such a method to promote resident participation as a supply of information, make the residents realize that participation produces good results, create a child participation system for social activities, and form a daily activity base.
4) It became clear that consciousness of local government officers regarding resident participation is affected by such factors as attribution of age, experience in administrative work, experience in administrative work regarding resident participation, the state of dealing with resident participation and the peculiarity of belonging to a municipality. Especially, experiences of administrative work regarding resident participation strongly influences their evaluation attitude concerning effects and problems with resident participation.
