| 신화용·안도경·박원호. 2015. "공익과 사익의 경계에서." 「한국정치학회보」. 49(4): 301-333. | |
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| Title | 신화용·안도경·박원호. 2015. "공익과 사익의 경계에서." 「한국정치학회보」. 49(4): 301-333. |
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This paper highlights the role of personal interest and local interest, which have been relatively underemphasized than that of public interest, in the literature in shaping political attitudes toward the political issues in the context of local area. The survey experiment with neighborhood cues on four political agendas of nuclear power plant, special-purpose high school, public rental apartment, and science belt construction, provides a lens through which we can understand how the localization of political issues can affect policy preferences. In contrast to the previous findings that personal interest has minimal impact on policy preferences due to the distance between personal life and the political realm, the results of our study reveal that individuals’ self-interest and local interest of adjacent region powerfully determine policy preferences when the issues are framed as local issues. This finding leads to the following implications. First, political issues can be presented not only as national agendas but also as local issues. When issues are localized, the impact of personal interest, instead of political belief, on policy attitudes becomes clearer. Second, depending on the nature of each political issue, when the expected policy consequences are similar across all individuals in a given local context, policy responses may move to the same direction at the aggregate level. However, when the expected cost and benefit are crystallized in different ways according to personal conditions, the attitude responses about political issues can differ across sub-groups. Third, since personal interest about localized issues reflects considerations for the policy effect on local community that goes beyond self-interest, both personal interest and public interest are mirrored in the policy preferences on localized issues. From these discussions, we emphasize that policy preferences are shaped not only by the abstract idea of public interest but also by the citizen’s everyday life. |
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