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‘Democratic' Governance and Civil Society:Focused on the Government-Civil Society Partnership

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2008, 6(1), pp.5~33
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Sungsoo Joo 1

1한양대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

'Democratic' governance, distinct from 'good' governance, concerns about the democratic principles such as the autonomy of civil society, transparency, accountability and empowerment. As the UK Compact on relations between the government and civil society shows a good example, the government has to have a strong political will and commitment to pursue a sustainable partnership with civil society by adopting the civil society’s autonomy and innovative competence to the process of policy design and implementation. There is a strong tendency for the government of Korea to consider civil society as an instrument rather than a policy partner. For the governance to be transformed from the 'instrumental' to the 'supplementary' or 'transitory' and thereby the 'democratic' governance to be achieved, both the government and civil society are demanded to pursue 'more often', 'more inclusive' and 'more competent' partnership relations.

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