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A study of cases where deliberative democracy is applied in the process of implementing the manifesto

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2013, 11(2), pp.99~146
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

oh hyun soon 1

1경희대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Representative democracy in a democratic society, where people live their lives with the community, has many limitations. Therefore, for its citizens to exercise their actual rights, it is essential to reduce the gap between the representative democracy and citizens. This study pays attention to deliberative democracy as a way to remedy the limitations of representative democracy. The purpose of this study is to evaluate civil jury cases, to which deliberative democracy is applied, in the process of implementing the manifestos. The purpose of civil jury system, to which deliberative democracy is applied, is to influence the implementation of election promises by reviewing and evaluating election promises through active participation of citizens beyond aggregative democracy in which the preferences of citizens are aggregated through elections. Civil jury system has been used by 9 local governments in Korea between 2012 and 2013. Of these, this study used the cases in Daegu, Gwanak-gu; Seoul,Namdong-gu; Incheon, and Yangpyeong-gun; Gyeonggi-do. This study examined the cases based on citizen participation and deliberation,effectiveness of democratic citizen education function, and improvement of the local government's reliability as important elements and functions of deliberative democracy.

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