지방정부의 주민당여예산제도의 참여주제 및 운영방식에 관한 연구

A Study on the Participation Agent and Operational Methods of Citizen Participation Budget System in Local Government

This study is based on a review of existing literature on inhabitants participation budget systems. Main purpose of this study is to have theoretical intent about operational methods of citizen participation budget systems. Citizen Participatory Budgeting System guarantees the citizens ’ direct participation in the draw-up of the local budget, which used to be conducted solely by the local government. The system not only promotes the citizens direct participation in budgeting, but also aims to distribute the budget most efficiently from the viewpoint of the citizens, improving the citizens’ satisfaction level as well as the quality of life. Nowadays, it is required to examine that the expansion of direct democracy is desirable on the public expenditure. At this point, decision about public expenditure through the direct democracy should be considered with rationality. By analyzing the citizen participatory budget system, this research inquire into that direct democracy do encourage political rationality and complement the indirect rationality. In order to find the significance in the rationality of the citizen participatory budget system, procedural rationality is used as a analysis tool. As a result of the analysis focused on procedural rationality, most cases in present are set with only procedural structure for the citizen participatory budget system is accepted. However, the procedural rationality is not yet established as it should.