Study on Institutional Arrangements of Public Participation of Construction Project: A Case Study of Shanghai Magnetic Levitation Construction Project

Abstract

The lack of public participation will cause engineering social issues, but the lack of institutional arrangements is the root cause. From the three aspects of the formal institutional arrangements, the informal institutional arrangements and the institutional enforcement, this paper analyzes the shortages of institutional arrangement of public participation in the construction project, and takes the Shanghai maglev as a study case to make an empirical analysis, and points out the flaws of institutional arrangement and institutional change in public participation. In order to improve the quality of public participation in the construction project, it is essential to reach the virtuous path dependence, perfect the formal institutional arrangement, value the informal institutional arrangement and secure the institutional enforcement.