공무원의 참여제도 운영 경험이 시민과 참여의 인식에 미치는 영향

The influence of the experience of the public officials participation system on the perception of citizen and participation

This study empirically analyzed how the experience in operation of the participation system of public officials affected the perception of citizens and participation. Dependent variables are six variables as follows: the perception about citizen is selected as the level of citizenship, distrust, and public official’s perception level of citizen awareness about public official, and the perception about participation is selected as necessity, acceptability, and effectiveness of participation. The data for analysis are based on the data of government officials of the questionnaire surveying the competence of the public and the government in the research on the government capacity indexing survey conducted by the Korea Institute of Public Administration in 2018. As a result, it was found that there were significant differences in three variables such as public distrust, acceptance, and effectiveness depending on whether or not the participation system was operated. The experience of operating the participatory system affected two variables: the level of public distrust and the level of public officials perception level of citizen about public official. Based on these results, this study suggested the policy implication to activate the participation system as an alternative mechanism to overcome the representative democracy.