The Korea Local Administration Review

The expansion of jurisdiction and increasing the resident population due tothe advent of consolidated cities, it is concerned that participation of localresidents might be difficult. In other words, the activation of citizen participationmay be needed as a check system of the enhanced consolidated market to getmaximized benefit from integration of local governments.In this research purposes based on the need of various civil-participationinstitutions that eliminate the alienation of local residents and narrow the gap topsychological distance between administration and residents because ofintegration between local governments. Fundamentally, emphasizing the citizenparticipation involved that government indifferent to the needs and preferencesof residents. To enable the participation of citizen is important toinstitutionalized of participation.In this study, to analysis improving the citizen participation in integration city‘Changwon’, using the convenience sampling method in Changwon, Masan andJinhae. In 2010 may 19 to may 22, citizens of each in Changwon, Masan andJinhae selected sample of 50(effective sample size, 150) people. Theimplications of this study, the results of the survey are as follows. According
to survey results, it tend to be think that the people of the community moreimportant their personal interests than community spirit and ownership thoughhigh response rates for active citizen participation on the preferred system,public administrative information, residents claim, using the civil service utilities.The result of survey for functioned civil-participation systems, participatinginstitutions of local residents appeared in order of civil service, neighborhoodmeeting, the inhabitants’ vote, survey research. Also these are poor that theclaim of ordinance revision and dismiss the court, citizen charter system,residents participation budget system, the claim of residents auditing. It is showthat higher tendency of negative participation to express passive opinionsdepending on the conditions rather than active participation.The basic direction for enable civil participation in consolidated ‘Changwon’should be designed to based on four principles-the principle of democratic, theprinciple of autonomy, the principle of public, the principle of economic.