정치교육적 관점에서 본 제도변화의 정치와 정당민주화

Abstract

This paper examines changes in the political parties and elections in terms of conflict and competition among various issues of political reform in Korea after democratization. The purpose is to examine the processes and political results. The reason for paying attention to these trends is to prepare a basis for review and evaluation of the extent to which political party institutional changes are responding to party democratization demands. If so, has the introduction of the national participation contest system reached a satisfactory level in terms of party democratization compared to before the introduction of the system? Did these institutional changs, which introduced an open candidate selection system called the ‘People’s Participation Competition’, bring about the democratization of political results? As a result of the analysis based on this awareness of the problem, it could be evaluated that each party achieved what they intended, especially in terms of representativeness. However, in terms of participation and responsiveness, it is confirmed that the results did not meet the expectations of the Korean political parties at the time of the introduction of the national primary system. In the case of participation, such a result was supported by low turnouts in the primaries, and in the case of responsiveness, unintended results were also supported through phenomena such as the weakening of the party's unity and the withdrawal of interest among candidates after participating in the primary. What should be noted is that the two aspects of participation and responsiveness are closely related to changes in the new environment in the Korean political process. In conclusion, we discussed what tasks can be presented from the perspective of democratization of political parties, and also considered how the political development of Korea through changes in the political system affects political education.