지역정당의 제도적 기반과 집합행위의 딜레마 : 가나가와현의 생활클럽운동그룹에 관한 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the institutional foundation of local party based upon new institutional rational choice theory through the case study of the Seikatsu Club movement in Kanagawa Province. This paper starts with an assumption that an institutional capital such as participatory democracy institution and social capital takes a critical role on overcoming/easing dilemmas of collective action in the process of formation and expansion of grass-roots democracy organization. Under such an assumption, this paper examines a process of establishing institutional foundation in local party by analyzing process of utilizing and accumulating institutional capital through the Seikatsu Club movement. After the analysis, the paper reaches three theoretical and practical implications: first, participatory democracy institution which predicates on basic principles, decentralization of decision making, opening to the public, civic participation, and autonomy, creates social capital facilitating people's voluntary participation. Furthermore, such social capital promotes people's participation and cooperationcapability second, leaders' political ideology affects the way of resolving dilemmas of collective action in the grass-roots democracy organization. In case of the Seikatsu Club movement in Kanagawa Province, the leaders' political ideology, which political participation is investment, not cost, is effect on path-dependent history of participatory democracy institution and third, the participatory democracy institution in local party does not guarantee ideological identity of local party or cooperative relation in-between local party and grass-roots democracy organization.