MARKET, DEMOCRACY, AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

Abstract

This article examines the government's role both from economic perspectives and from democratic viewpoints. It first discusses the relationships between markets and the role of government from economic perspectives, and then explores the active role and the passive role of government from democratic viewpoints. In this article, two conflicting perspectives suggested by Friedman and Galbraith around markets and the government's roles are addressed. Next, as a government's passive role in strengthening democracy, this article examines the justification of citizen participation on the basis of Karl Popper’s incrementalism theory and suggests the Open Government Model (OG). OG can be defined as a government citizen’s constructive participation and critics are fully involved in government's decision making processes. Finally, this article describes the government's active role as helping community building and constructing collaborative leadership with communities.