도덕정책 이슈의 정책과정과 주요 행위자의 프레이밍에 관한 연구: 양심적 병역거부를 중심으로

While past studies on conscientious objection to military service mainly focused on its terminology and definition, the relationship between its meaning and an alternative service, and its history and movement, there was little attention to efforts to approach this issue in the dimension of public policy. Furthermore, most moral issues including conscientious objection to military service are related to the value judgement of people, and frame is an important strategical approach to understand it. Accordingly, inquiring conscientious objection to military service with a frame is a meaningful work. Based on this recognition, the purpose of this study is to inquire theoretically conscientious objection to military service with a morality policy framework and to analyze the use of diagnostic framing, prognostic framing, and motivational framing of the general public, persons of religion & religious groups, politicians & political parties, and judicial agencies as major actors of morality policy. As analytical results, these major actors defined conscientious objection to military service as a diagnostic framing, seek specific solutions and action strategies as a prognostic framing, and used adequate vocabularies stressing the severity and propriety of the conscientious objection to military service as a motivational framing. These results mean that it is possible to approach its policy processes as an another way that differs from a traditional approach providing objective solutions by empirical analyses by trying interpretations and giving different meanings about conscientious objection to military through the use of framing. Based on the analytical results, this study drives three significant implications. First, the study provides a theoretical foundation for understanding a morality policy process by looking at the framing of major actors in conscientious objection to military service with a morality policy framework. Second. unlike other policy issues, it is very important to understand policy processes how to frame them in morality policy issues. Finally, like other morality policy issues, it informs us that the court"s ruling is a significant factor raising framing changes in the issue of conscientious objection to military service.