• Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.65-92
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• 2009

Political trust is defined as the degree to which people perceive that government is producing outcomes consistent with their expectations. Political trust as a concept has endogenous as well as exogenous characteristics in that it can cause and be caused by other political factors. The purpose of this study is to introduce and evaluate various theoretical perspectives related to the causes and effects of political trust. With respect to its causes, this study focuses on the following five factors: government policies, unethical behaviors of politicians, citizens' penchant for participatory democracy, the public's misperceptions on government, and political culture. On the other hand, this study discusses the impacts of political trust on each stage of political process by paying attention to the following factors: government's governability, election outcomes, political recruitment, and the directions of government policies.

• Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.103-139
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• 2019

This study aims to verify how trust in government leads voters' electoral participation with paying attention to their political orientations. In particular, this study takes voters' partisan consideration into account to examine different direction of the effect of trust in government on electoral participation depending on their ideology and partisan preferences. Key findings show that governmental trust has a positive influence on electoral participation for voters who have conformable ideological orientations to the incumbent government and positive preferences toward the ruling party. In contrast, distrust in government is more likely to increase the possibility of electoral participation for those who have different ideology from the incumbent, negative attitude toward the ruling party, and partisan preferences of the opposition party. Previous studies on the relationship between governmental trust and electoral participation have been mixed as yet. For the sake of explaining this inconclusiveness, this study focuses on partisan foundation of voters' political decision making. It contributes to our understanding of the political properties of governmental trust and its implications for representative democracy.

• Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.79-115
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• 2021

Voters' negative evaluations of government performance lower their trust in government, which functions as the reward and punishment for the government. Trust in government thus serves to promote political accountability of the representative government. However, voters build their confidence toward the party government where the ruling party is responsible for the performance. Considering this partisan nature, we empirically examine that the influence of voters' performance evaluations on governmental trust is conditional on their party identifications. While higher perceptions of political/social conflict and increasing negative evaluations of government policies and economic performance are associated with the lower level of confidence in government, the relationship is contrasted between different party identifiers. For supporters of the ruling party in 2020, the negative evaluations of government performance are not likely to reduce trust in government a lot. On the contrary, those who identify with the main opposition party show the most prominent effect of negative evaluations on their distrust in government. This study demonstrates that trust in government is affected by voters' partisan preferences, not entirely by evaluations of government performance. Such a distortion of the reward and sanction function of governmental trust might lead to the weakening of the accountability mechanism in representative democracy.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.45-55
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• 2013

New information communication technologies are changing our society completely, offering the government new possibilities for providing citizens and businesses with better, and more efficient E-Government services. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impact of service value, innovativeness, and users' participation level on the trust toward the Government. Results from a citizen survey indicate that service value, innovativeness, and participation positively affect the trust toward the Government, and that innovativeness has been found to affect service value as well as the level of participation. However, the moderating effect of political efficacy on the relationship between two variables(service value and participation) and trust have been found to be insignifcant. Several other findings and policy implications are also discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• v.20
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• pp.97-102
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• 1991

조사통계는 정부통계 작성이 시초였으며 정부통계는 해방후 정부수립과 동시에 기본적인 항목만 생산되었으나 1961년 장기적인 경제발전계획의 수립과 추진을 위한 경제기획원 발족이 활성화의 계기가 되었다. 1963년에는 경제활동 인구조사에서 전수조사가 아닌 표본조사를 처음 적용하였으며, 1991년 1월 조사 통계국이 통계청으로 승격되어 다양한 분야의 수준높은 통계작성과 통계에 대한 신뢰성 제고가 가능케 되었다.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.51 no.8
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• pp.44-48
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• 2011

철도 이해관계자인 승객, 정부, 운영사 그리고 제작사가 철도서비스에 요구하는 핵심적인 품질인자인 안전성, 정시성, 서비스 공급비용 등은 철도시스템의 신뢰성과 밀접한 관계가 있으므로 이들을 만족시키기 위해서는 체계적인 신뢰성 관리활동이 필요하다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.7-24
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• 2010

This study tried to develop the confidence indicators and evaluation factors of credibility according to the types of online information by nationwide large scale online survey. The main results are summarized as follows: i) confidence indicators by types of online information: information on news sites(72.553), financial companies(68.894), government sites(67.938), cafe(66.464), portal sites(65.001), collective intelligence sites(63.489), nonprofit organization (63.392), company/corporation sites(59.789), blog(59.066), online community sites(55.609), e-commerce sites(55.118), mini-homepage(50.695). ii) 'Widely known site' or 'famous site' is the most important factor for all types of online information. User opinions like as posting or comment are major factors for sites of cafe, blog, mini-homepage, online community, collective intelligence etc. and 'name recognition' and 'reputation' are main factors for site of financial company, corporation, government, nonprofit organization.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.205-212
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• 2003

Reliability means that certain parts or systems maintain its best qualities and functionalities within certain periods and is the prospective quality which the safe life of products is indicated by quantitative values and the highest level of reliability of the products is required to attain in the highly competitive business world. In Korea, there have been a significant growth in the field of reliability and government promotes the "Reliability Improvement Project" to establish infrastructure to conduct reliability assessment and certification. The importance and necessity is well recognized among researchers and engineers working in the research institutions and the manufacturing industries and many industries invest a great amount of money and effort in improving the reliability of its products. In this paper, the promotional status of reliability improvement project and necessity of establishment of the reliability certification system for aerospace field is presented.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.125-154
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• 2007

1997년부터 2002년까지 수돗물의 바이러스 오염 여부에 관한 논쟁이 있었다. 서울대의 K 교수는 학회에서 수돗물을 분석한 결과 질병을 일으키는 바이러스가 검출되었다고 보고했고, 이 내용이 언론을 통해 보도되면서 수돗물의 안정성에 대한 논쟁이 일어났다. 이 논쟁은 바이러스 검출방법론의 신뢰성을 둘러싼 과학적 논쟁과 검출된 바이러스가 위험한지에 대한 위험논쟁이 함께 공존하며 진행되었다. 필자는 정책의 변화를 요구하는 과학적 사실을 둘러싼 논쟁을 분석하기 위해 과학전문가와 정부를 분석의 대상으로 삼고 있으며, 아래의 세 가지를 주장하고 있다. 첫째, 논쟁을 제기한 과학자(K 교수)와 정부(환경부, 서울시)가 바이러스의 확인부터, 승인, 정책 결정에 이르는 전 과정에서 검출방법론에 차이를 보이고 있으며, 이러한 방법의 차이는 민감성과 정확성을 추구하는 과학계와 법적기준을 위한 정량적 가치를 중시하는 정부의 특징이 반영된 것임을 주장한다. 둘째, 과학논쟁에서 K 교수팀이 PCR 방법을 통해 바이러스의 실재(reality)를 확인하면서 과학적 정당성을 확보했음을 보인다. 셋째 바이러스의 검출 방법에서 PCR 방법이 과학적 실재를 결정했지만, 위험의 실재를 규정하는 데에는 한계가 있었음을 지적한다. 마지막으로 본 논문은 논쟁분석을 통해 정책입안을 둘러싼 과학 위험논쟁에서 과학전문가의 역할을 고찰하고 있다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.217-224
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to discuss implications for government policy aimed at increasing public's intention to accept AI. Knowledge regarding AI and feelings regarding AI were found to influence acceptance to intention towards AI. Hierarchical regression analysis was then conducted to explore the moderation effect of confidence in government on knowledge and feelings regarding AI. Results showed that as advanced knowledge regarding AI has a positive influence on acceptance intention towards AI and negative feelings regarding AI has a negative influence on acceptance intention towards AI. Feelings regarding AI had the highest impact on acceptance intention towards AI, followed by confidence in government and knowledge regarding AI. Results also revealed that a high level of confidence in government regulations was associated with greater acceptance intention towards AI and a low level of confidence in government regulations acceptance intention towards AI was more influenced by feelings regarding AI than by knowledge regarding AI. Furthermore, religion had a significant influence on acceptance intention towards AI, which provides one insightful direction for future research.