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Government Performance on Citizen Participation: Considering Trust in Government as a Moderating Variable

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2017, 28(2), pp.29-54
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

김민혜 1 Lee, SeungJong 2

1서울대학교 행정대학원 박사과정
2서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

Government performance, citizen participation and trust in government are critical issues on recent studies. Though the importance on public administration, the effect of government performance on citizen participation has rarely been studied and tested empirically due to a lack of data. Besides, recent studies have never been conducted to use trust in government as a moderator variable. The purpose of this study is to examine how the effect of government performance on citizen participation differs depending on the degree of trust in government. To solve this research question, we set the independent variable as government performance, dependent variable as citizen participation categorized into 2014 local election turnout and non-electoral participation, and trust in government as a moderator variable. We used 2014 survey data of Koreans' recognition toward government conducted by Korea Gallup and have tested a hypothesis using logistic regression and multiple regression analysis. The results indicate that government performance is a statistically significant factor on non-electoral participation. Then, trust in government is included as a moderator variable on the analysis, we confirm its moderating effect on both kinds of citizen participation, but we cannot find differential effect of trust in government regarding two types of participation.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.