사회갈등구조의 진단과 제도적 접근 - 스웨덴의 SOU 모델을 중심으로 본 한국의 대안모색 -
Social Conflicts and Consensus Building Mechanism- Sweden's SOU Model and Its Implication for Korea
In terms of building of democratic institutions and democratic process in national agenda setting Korean democracy seems to have not reached democratic consolidation. Despite long process of struggle for democracy, Korea is still broadly suffering from fierce physical confrontations between ruling and opposition parties within the Korean Assembly, antagonism between the haves and the have-nots, regional and metropolitan divide, and lack of popular support in resource distribution and balanced regional development. Democracy in Scandinavia, however, seems to show a contrasting example: stable legal and institutional process based on reconciliation and consensus backup among social groups in agenda setting as well as distribution of national resources. The central hypothesis of this article says that both quality and political outcome of democratic institutions are mainly dependent upon the positive and active role of consensus building mechanism. The failure or, at least, lack of open consensus building mechanism in a country may cause widespread national disharmony, conflict and antagonism. From the Swedish case study of institutional and constitutional reform politics, this article argues that the successful case of Swedish democracy with high political and social quality is based on the role of consensus building in general and, on the role of Special committee system including SOU and Remiss processes in particular. It is also argued that dysfunctions caused by power domination of incompetent political parties in representative democracies should be complemented by the deliberative way of decision-making process in which many actors are participating in order to cope with the political ineffectiveness in emerging democracies including South Korea.
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1. 들어가는 글 2. 대의정치, 정치제도와 정치갈등 3. 갈등구조의 진단 4. 스웨덴의 정치갈등해소의 사례연구 5. 나오는 글 참고문헌 Abstract