누가 공론화에 참여할 의향이 있는가?

Abstract

The public deliberation is emerging as a solution to social conflicts over policy issues in Korea. This study notes that the actual participation of citizens depends on the individual’s willingness to participate, and analyzes the factors that determine participation in public deliberation. In particular, we explore how citizens’ attitudes toward democracy (stealth democracy vs. sunshine democracy) affect their willingness to participate. As a result of the analysis, it is confirmed that individuals in Korea generally decide to participate in public deliberation based on a sunshine attitude rather than a stealth attitude, but that there is also a considerable mix of critical participation that can be viewed as a stealth attitude. This suggests that when designing public deliberation, it is necessary to secure the independence of public deliberation to secure the function of checks and criticism, which are the interests of citizens with stealth attitudes, and to satisfy the preferences of citizens with sunshine attitudes by securing the effectiveness of public deliberation results.