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This study examines how AI mediated civic participation has been institutionalised across three Northeast Asian states, South Korea, Japan, and China and how their distinct political institutional contexts shape these patterns. Despite shared developmental state legacies, Confucian cultural heritage, and world class digital infrastructure, the three countries display strikingly divergent trajectories of AI enabled participation in terms of depth and citizen autonomy. Adopting a Most Similar Systems Design (MSSD), we triangulate evidence from the UN E Government Development Index (EGDI), Oxford Government AI Readiness Index (GARI), Stanford AI Index 2025, Freedom House's Freedom on the Net, the V Dem Digital Society Project, and operational statistics of national civic participation platforms. Findings show that South Korea?world leading in EGDI (0.957, 3rd in 2024) and 3rd in GARI (79.98)?nevertheless suffers from bureaucracy led top down platform design that constrains substantive feedback loops. Japan, despite ranking first in the E Participation Index (2022), exhibits institutional friction between consensus oriented nemawashi culture and the Digital Agency's post 2021 reforms. China combines massive throughput (Beijing's 12345 hotline processed 24,195,000 cases in 2024 with 95%+ satisfaction) with extreme online freedom restriction (FOTN 9/100), embodying a controlled responsiveness logic. These divergences are not driven by technological capacity alone but by how developmental state administrative legacies, regime openness, and civil society autonomy structurally configure AI deployment. We argue that all three states share the common tension between ‘formal expansion’ and ‘substantive autonomy constraint’ of participation, and propose two governance principles?algorithmic transparency and accountability linkage as a minimum shared baseline.

저자

• 한은수
• 김은경

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• 간행물명

  동북아 문화연구 [Journal of North-east Asian Cultures]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3692

• 수록기간

  2001~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 910 DDC 950