This study examines the gap between importance and performance in local government public deliberation, focusing on the 2025 Gyeonggi-do Public Deliberation Case. Based on OECD principles for representative deliberative processes, eleven key elements ...
This study examines the gap between importance and performance in local government public deliberation, focusing on the 2025 Gyeonggi-do Public Deliberation Case. Based on OECD principles for representative deliberative processes, eleven key elements of deliberative process quality were identified, and a survey was conducted with participants in the citizens’ deliberative assembly. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, paired-sample t-tests, Importance–Performance Analysis (IPA), gap analysis, and the Priority Index (PI).
The results show that importance scores were higher than performance scores for all eleven elements. IPA identified “information provision” and “diversity” as areas requiring concentrated improvement, while the gap and PI analyses further highlighted “policy influence,” “accessibility,” and “evaluation and feedback” as key priorities. Gender and age differences were generally limited. This study contributes to diagnosing local government deliberation from the participants’ perspective and suggests practical improvements in information provision, diversity, policy linkage, accessibility, and feedback.