한국사회에서 정치적 시민성의 의미

Abstract

South Korean citizens are developing a mature sense of political citizenship. The consolidation of Korean democratization has formed a sophisticated democracy in Korea. Recently, the Korean political system has developed toward coalition politics with a multiparty system governed by a ruling party and a major opposition party. Political citizenship, which has appeared in the Korean political system, is becoming a full grown phenomena through systematic processing interactions (input, output, and feedback) with the government and the regime. Korean citizens are trying to escape their anti-political tradition and form a social agreement to promote the public interest through dialogue and compromise. Korean citizens should cultivate political citizenship based on deliberative and critical rationality, rather than on the morality and conformity stressed by past political regimes for the sake of stability and continuity. This paper presents various definitions of political citizenship by using concepts from complex systems theory.