주민참여제고 방안에 관한 실증적 연구 : 통합창원시를 중심으로

Abstract

The expansion of jurisdiction and increasing the resident population due to the advent of consolidated cities, it is concerned that participation of local residents might be difficult. In other words, the activation of citizen participation may be needed as a check system of the enhanced consolidated market to get maximized benefit from integration of local governments. In this research purposes based on the need of various civil-participation institutions that eliminate the alienation of local residents and narrow the gap to psychological distance between administration and residents because of integration between local governments. Fundamentally, emphasizing the citizen participation involved that government indifferent to the needs and preferences of residents. To enable the participation of citizen is important to institutionalized of participation. In this study, to analysis improving the citizen participation in integration city ‘Changwon’, using the convenience sampling method in Changwon, Masan and Jinhae. In 2010 may 19 to may 22, citizens of each in Changwon, Masan and Jinhae selected sample of 50(effective sample size, 150) people. The implications of this study, the results of the survey are as follows. According to survey results, it tend to be think that the people of the community more important their personal interests than community spirit and ownership though high response rates for active citizen participation on the preferred system, public administrative information, residents claim, using the civil service utilities. The result of survey for functioned civil-participation systems, participating institutions of local residents appeared in order of civil service, neighborhood meeting, the inhabitants’ vote, survey research. Also these are poor that the claim of ordinance revision and dismiss the court, citizen charter system, residents participation budget system, the claim of residents auditing. It is show that higher tendency of negative participation to express passive opinions depending on the conditions rather than active participation. The basic direction for enable civil participation in consolidated ‘Changwon’ should be designed to based on four principles-the principle of democratic, the principle of autonomy, the principle of public, the principle of economic.