시민참여 활성화를 위한 ‘정당법’ 개선에 관한 연구

A Study on Law of Party for Activating Citizen Participation

Citizen participation is not only the medium of activating government’s response for citizen preferences, but cultivates the attitudes that are needed for democracy. In this point, activating citizen participation has the alternative meaning that overcomes the representative democracy’s reality. but There are the obstacles for activating citizen participation. In the problematic situation that representative democracy has faced, the party has had more negative assessment than positive assessment. It is the most problematic that the party having vested rights monopolies the formation of people’s opinions. Through party law, the party has made the act of political association not party difficult. In this point, the party law is posited as system not for activating citizen participation but for constrain citizen participation. But party is likely not to be abolished. For under representative democracy the only party can organize and mobilize citizen. In this point, author considers that the revision of party law for activating citizen participation is needed for changing non democratic party into democratic party. Specially, The liberty of party establishment and the activity of political association not party must be actually guaranteed. Also the revision for democratic party law makes democratic party stable. If party is not stable by law, party is likely to be influenced by human’s internal unexpectedness and arbitrariness. This article on the revision of party law for activating citizen participation investigates the following four important issue. central party system reform, district party abolishment, part enrollment and cancellation, candidate selection.