韓國 參與民主主義의 憲法的 課題와 評價 : 韓國 代議制民主主義의 危機는 극복될 수 있는가? = Constitutional Problems and Values on Korean Participatory Democracy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The transitional democracy that comprised the 'third wave' of democratization between 1974 and 1990s were followed by further incremental democratic enlargement, such that by 2000, 120 out of 193 countries could be formally classified as democratic. North Africa and the Middle East Asia remained essentially authoritarian and over half of the transitions that were witnessed in sub-Saharan Africa during the early 1990s either atrophied well rule.
Moreover, the quality and robustness of democracy in post-transition states gave cause for much concerns; Now Korea maybe might be faced the peril of democracy, if it can not shrink from the trap of representative democracy which ex-two Governments of 1992 and 1998 could not overcome the problem solving of post-transition democracy in 2000s.
Democracy has the multi- meaning in itself and should be different from its style and contents in according to the political culture and societal context.
This paper is concerned with putting on the specific alternatives of constitutional tasks and obligations so as to embody the material democracy for participatory government to account for people in post-transition democracy. I would like to consider the participatory democracy into 'a semi-direct democracy' in the follows. In particular, we can not help recognizing the importance of normativism and positivism of the constitutional law under the understanding of problem on democracy. So I researched students' understanding and evaluation on Korean democracy that the empirical study was consisted with the questionnaire of twelve items to ninety students in 2002. The 12 questionnaire are public consensus, obey of law, political freedom, economic rights, fair election, responsibility of government, party democratization, civil control of power, official's corruption, media's role, civilian participation, responsibility of opinion, but the only positive evaluation is political freedom( 1.1) upper than average point(-0.98). The negative evaluations of official's corruption(-3.74), obey of law(-2.05), and public consensus(-1.33) and economic rights(-1.1), and media's role(-1.17) and fair of election(-1.05) are lower than average point(-0.98). The rests items have specific evaluation meanings for upper than average point(-0.98).
As mentioned above, the students' general evaluation on Korean democracy leads to the pessimistic perspectives on the future. I dare to guess the limits of social and cultural backgrounds where has stemmed from a societal communitarianism with ruling out the individualism and personal identity.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 머리글
• Ⅱ. 한국민주주의의 이해태도에 관한 실증연구
• Ⅲ. 參與民主主義의 憲法的 意義
• Ⅳ. 市民社會와 代議民主主義 危機克服
• Ⅴ. 結論