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Deliberative Democracy and Citizen’s Participation: The Case of 21st Century Town Hall Meeting

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2009, 7(1), pp.57~98
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Jai-Chang Park 1

1숙명여자대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This is to explore and analyze functional implications of ‘21st Town Hall Meeting’, which has been suggested as one of the efficient tools to respond to increasing demands for citizen's participation and deliberative democracy in the States. It is to accumulate collective wisdom, assumes intimate learning process among the citizens, tries to convert informal opinions of civil society into authoritative or official policies of government, task oriented in the sense that it really attempts to produce tangible and concrete outcomes, designed to reflect so balanced view that legitimacy, relevancy, and acceptance of government policies are upgraded and so respond to citizen’s needs and aspirations. It is not simply to approach from a managerial perspective but also from a power struggle and sees the roles of government as outcome of interactions between them as well.

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