주민참여예산제와 숙의 민주주의의 연계

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify and propose the necessary tasks for establishing deliberative participatory budgeting in South Korea by comparing and examining the characteristics of deliberative participatory budgeting implemented by local governments in three countries with different political and social backgrounds. To do so, theoretical and practical discussions on ‘deliberative participatory budgeting’, which encompass perspectives of participatory and direct democracy as well as deliberative democracy, were reviewed. Then, three cases of ‘deliberation-based participatory budgeting’ implemented by local governments such as Zeguo town in China, the city of Greater Geraldton in Australia, and Eunpyeong-gu in Korea, were compared and analyzed. The cases of Zeguo and Geraldton demonstrated that when participatory budgeting systems are combined with deliberative mechanisms such as deliberative pollings and town meetings to address local issues, participatory democracy and deliberative democracy can positively interact with each other and contribute to problem-solving. The case of Eunpyeong-gu stood out for utilizing deliberation in public forums from the stage of proposing ideas for solving local issues to determining priorities. As improvement tasks, it was suggested to diversify the Korean participatory budgeting model, which is primarily operated under the ‘resident proposal project’, and reduce the ‘bias in participation by self-selection’ through the multi-level operation of public forums based on neighborhoods, themes, and target groups.