정치 신뢰를 높이기 위한 의정활동 아카이브의 기능적 고찰 -국민동의청원 제도를 중심으로-

Abstract

Digital technological innovation has given modern citizens the means to become more engaged in politics, but trust in politics remains at a very low level. As Aristotle said, humans are political by nature, and pursuing a political life is what makes us human. Therefore, political problems, such as the decline in trust in politics, are directly related to human existential problems. From this perspective, in order to prevent the loss of the original function of politics, state institutions, including the National Assembly, have established various institutional devices. Governments, parliaments, and other institutions have established and operate legislative petition systems that provide citizens with the right to freely and directly participate in the legislative process. This article considers political consciousness to include the evaluations, attitudes, and behaviors that citizens have in epistemological terms as actions that precede the creation of policies, and examines the specific functions of political consciousness to increase political trust, which is the support and expectations that citizens have for politics and policies. First, we look at the current status of the petition system as a platform for citizen participation in politics, and then examine how it functions to increase political trust. We also examine the functions of parliamentary activity archives as necessary to increase political trust through a functional definition of parliamentary activity archives as not only an infrastructure that provides citizens with reliable information from records, but also as a space that provides the experience of 'empathy' and 'understanding' through archives, and as a place where the actors that constitute the state can freely participate.