한국 장애인의회정치 문화의 변화와 발전 방향

Abstract

As the movements for human rights of the disabled were carried out together with pro-democracy movements of the 1990s, the disabled started expressing their opinions for the purpose of acquiring the social/political recognition by fighting against the sociocultural suppression of the mainstream. For the political participation of the disabled, especially, the world of disabled people demanded the disabled proportional representatives for the participation in real politics by asking for the appropriate measures for the righteous exercise of a right to vote in elections. As a result, lawyer Lee Seong-Jae with physical disabilities entered the 15th National Assembly as a disabled proportional representative in 1996. After that, total 12 members of the National Assembly as disabled proportional representatives have been produced till the current 21st National Assembly. The subjects of this study were 12 disabled proportional representatives, and the research method was limited to analyze the current status of legislative activities of those 12 disabled members of the National Assembly. When there is no objective evaluation of parliamentary activities of disabled members of the National Assembly, evaluating the contribution of parliamentary activities of each disabled member of the National Assembly to the development of welfare for the disabled, could be affected by personal political tendency. Thus, this study aims to seek for the developmental direction of the disabled proportional representation system by organizing the footprints of parliamentary political culture of the disabled that started from 1996.