한국 선거의 완전성 평가에 대한 분석:새로운 평가방법론의 모색을 겸하여

Democracy is universally accepted in most of the world today. Some scholars have tried to establish common evaluation criteria for elections in each country through the concept of election completeness. They present the concept of ‘electoral integrity’ as an evaluation criterion. A integral election can be defined as “an election in which all electoral processes are fair and transparent in accordance with democratic principles”. The concept of electoral integrity is intended to assess the quality of elections around the world. As a concrete evaluation standard, there is “the perceptions of electoral integrity index” by the Electoral Integrity Project. The results of the project provide information on the areas of the election system that are most urgent for individual democratic countries. However, it is expected that the evaluation results may be objected to due to the evaluation criteria that do not fully consider the specific circumstances of each country. This paper analyzed the evaluation results of the Electoral Integrity Project in recent elections in Korea. In this paper, we try to accomplish the following two purposes. First, this paper sought to identify areas where improvement is most urgently required in our electoral system. It is confirmed that the conclusion about this part is not much different from the existing domestic discussion. Because of the relatively low evaluation of electoral districts, freedom of election campaign, and media reports. Second, we tried to supplement the evaluation criteria of the Election Integrity Project itself. According to the criteria of the project, in the case of Korea, there was not a satisfactory evaluation item about the recent intervention incident of the NIS. On the other hand, it is also pointed out that there is no appropriate evaluation items related to SNS, which is increasingly influential as a political medium. Therefore, this paper suggests that additional criteria for the Electoral Integrity Projects should be added to ‘National Institutions distinguished from Electoral Institutions’ and ‘Political Media other than Press Reports’ as an additional evaluation criterion for the Electoral Integrity Project.