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100 _aOh, Youngmin
245 _aConnecting a missing link between participation in administration and political participation: the mediating role of political efficacy
260 _c2017
300 _ap.694-716.
362 _aDec
520 _aPublic participation in administrative or political processes has been advocated as an important democratic reform by scholars and practitioners. Despite the importance of such public participation mechanisms, the relationship between participation in administration and political participation remains unexplored. This study aims to connect the missing link by empirically testing the mediating roles of political efficacy between two types of public participation. By connecting administrative and political participation through political efficacy, we intend to demonstrate that citizen participation in administration plays a pivotal role in remedying declining political participation. For the empirical tests, cross-sectional data from local jurisdictions in Korea were collected by survey questionnaires, and a series of Structural Equation Models are used to identify the causal relationships among these variables. The findings demonstrate that participation in administration influences political participation only through political efficacy, while the demand for participation in administration is connected to political participation either directly or through internal political efficacy. Conversely, political participation fosters participation in administration only through political efficacy. Given the empirical evidence, participation in administration and political participation reinforce each other, and political efficacy plays a critical role in mediating the two types of public participation. - Reproduced.
650 _aPolitical efficacy
650 _aParticipation in administration
650 _aCitizen participation
650 _aPolitical participation
700 _aLim, Seunghoo
773 _aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
909 _a116512
999 _c116506
_d116506