청와대 국민청원의 개선방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

Blue House Petition System utilizes the attributes of play to enhance communication with the public and to attract participation that is the basis of communication. The expansion of participation through Blue House Petition System does not guarantee rational decision making, but plays a positive role in supplementing the limitations of representative democracy and strengthening direct democracy. Thus, the substance of populism is political disaffection, In other words, people treat political disaffection as populism. In addition, the petitioners project their disaffection upon the petition of the Blue House, but this is not linked with a populist because the independent variable on petitioners’ attitudes toward populism and the populist is not valid in the test. On the contrary, it is worth mentioning that the demand for political participation between Korean citizens is strongly formed and projected into the Blue House petition. This can be confirmed in the political situation of South Korea recently. Citizens’ voices reflected through ‘Cheong Wa Dae’s petition democracy threaten the various devices of the rule of law, especially the separation of power. However, the tension between democracy and the rule of law is not new. From the beginning, their relationship is very ambivalent. This was precisely what German public law professor Carl Schmitt had captured. As for the improvement direction of the petition law, it is necessary to change the paradigm of the petition act. On the subject side, the object of petition limited to national institutions should be expanded and reflected, and the e-petition system should reflect the change of the times. In this study, I argue that the government should make efforts to increase the opportunities for communication with the public in order to supplement the limitations of representative democracy and that play can be a catalyst for facilitating communication between the government and the public by promoting public participation in politics do.