Values of Government Public Relations for a Rocky Road to Participatory Democracy: Testing Public Engagement, Empowerment, and Serenity Hypotheses in Public Sector Communication

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Partecipazione e Conflitto Pub Date : 2020-07-17 DOI:10.1285/I20356609V13I2P1110

Myoung‐Gi Chon, Hyelim Lee, Jeong-Nam Kim

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Abstract

Voluntary citizen attention and actions are key to successful public-sector communication. We investigated the conditions which increase such attention and actions using the situational theory of problem solving (STOPS) and government-citizen relationships (GCRs). Using three national issues consisting of an environmental issue, a social issue, and a political issue from South Korea (N=275), this study examined three hypotheses regarding public engagement effect (the effect of GCRs on political conversations on national issues), government empowerment effect (the effects of GCRs and issue-specific trust toward government on constraint recognition), and public serenity effect (the effect of issue-specific trust on problem recognition and involvement recognition). We found significant public engagement and government empowerment effects and partially significant public serenity effect. The results of the public serenity investigation found that issue-specific trust toward government was significant with problem recognition but insignificant with involvement recognition. Consequently, the findings illustrate strategic values in government-citizen relationships on public engagement, empowerment, and serenity to enable participatory democracy.

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通往参与式民主之路的政府公共关系价值:公共部门沟通中公众参与、授权和宁静假说的检验

公民自愿的关注和行动是公共部门沟通成功的关键。我们利用问题解决情境理论(STOPS)和政府-公民关系(GCRs)研究了增加这种关注和行动的条件。本研究利用韩国的环境问题、社会问题和政治问题这三个国家问题(N=275)，检验了关于公众参与效应(gcr对国家问题政治对话的影响)、政府赋权效应(gcr和特定问题对政府信任对约束认识的影响)、公众宁静效应(特定议题信任对问题识别和涉入识别的影响)。我们发现了显著的公众参与和政府赋权效应，以及部分显著的公众宁静效应。公众宁静度调查结果发现，特定议题对政府的信任对问题认知显著，对参与认知不显著。因此，研究结果说明了政府-公民关系在公众参与、赋权和宁静方面的战略价值，以实现参与式民主。

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Partecipazione e Conflitto POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

2.00

自引率

12.50%

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审稿时长

6 weeks

期刊介绍： PArtecipazione e COnflitto [PArticipation and COnflict] is an International Journal based in Italy specialized in social and political studies. PACO houses research and studies on the transformations of politics and its key players (political parties, interest groups, social movements, associations, unions, etc.), focusing in particular on the dynamics of participation both by individuals acting in conventional ways, and by those who prefer protest-oriented repertoires of action. Special attention is also paid to the dynamics of transformation of contemporary political systems, with an eye fixed on the processes of democratization besides on the spaces opening to the new forms of governance both at local and sub-national, and supra-national level. All are inscribed in that complex phenomenon represented by the trans-nationalization of social, political and economic processes, without neglecting the nation-state dimension. The journal emphasizes innovative studies and research of high methodological rigor, treasuring of the most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social and political sciences.