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Confidence in Government in Korea: Modern and Postmoden Factors

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2004, 2(2), pp.87~118
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

박병진 1

1한양대학교

ABSTRACT

Surveys suggest an erosion of confidence in government. There have been kind of mixed coexistence among the traditional, modern and postmodern values and actions in contemporary Korean society. The institutional confidence can be understood in the context of transient juxtaposition of cultural values. The trust in government is built by the transparency and fairness in important social activities and the certainty of social sanction against elites’ corruption. In addition, the postmaterialist values are also recognized as one of factors affecting confidence in state apparatus along with the traditional value, strong social ties. I developed three hypotheses that represent each phase of development, strong social ties hypothesis, fairness hypothesis, sanction hypothesis, and postmaterialist hypothesis. Based on this theoretical perspective, this article analyzed a sample of 1,202 cases which is nationally representative. Factor analyses indicate that institutional confidence is composed of three different dimensions of confidence in government, professionals, and NGOs. After series of multiple regression analysis, I find the empirical data strongly support these hypotheses except the strong ties hypothesis. The more certain punishment against elites' crime and the more transparent in government policies leads to the more confident in government. Thosewho has more postmaterialist values tends to show lower confidence in government.

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