국가정책에 대한 홍보는 국민의 의견을 수렴하여 정책을 결정하는 사전 홍보로부터 시작하여, 정책을 집행하기 전 문제관리 및 위기 예방차원의 홍보, 정책 집행을 효과적으로 수행하기 위한 홍보 프로그램 수행, 그리고 효과 평가에 이르기까지 단계적으로 수행되어야 한다. 국가의 정책홍보 프로세스는 크게 정책 구상 단계, 정책 결정 단계, 정책 발표 및 집행 단계, 정책 홍보 효과 평가 단계인 4가지 단계로 분류된다. 이를 기본으로 각 단계별 세부 내용에 따라 국가정책의 홍보 활동을 제시하고 분석할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 정책홍보의 수행과정 모델에 따른 정책홍보 수행 현황과 모델 충실도를 파악해보고자 하였다. 따라서 과연 국가의 정책 수행 과정 속에서 실제 ‘정책홍보’는 어떻게 이루어 지고 있으며, 정책 홍보를 담당하는 부처 담당자들은 정책홍보의 수행 과정 절차를 충실하게 따라 이행하고 있는가에 연구의 초점을 맞추었다. 특히 정책홍보 담당자들이 단계별 정책홍보 수행 내용을 충실하게 이행하고 있는지, 만일 그렇지 않다면 어떤 이유가 주된 것인지, 그 문제를 파악하여 정책 홍보 담당자들에게 효율적인 업무 수행 방향을 제시하고자 하였다. 또한 정부의 정책홍보 수행 과정에서 홍보팀과 비홍보팀간의 수행정도의 차이가 있는가를 살펴보고자 하였다.
Government policy PR activities range, longitudinally, from the conception step of a policy to the completion of the policy and include, latitudinally, such PR activities as media relations, community relations, issue and crisis management, MPR, advertising campaign, and public affairs. For the last several years Korean government has emphasized the Policy PR practices to acquire people's supports and agreements on her policies. However, regardless of Korean government's effort to promote the policy PR activities, many opinion leaders and the press have pointed out the lack of the government's rapport with people in policy PR communication. The purpose of this study is to examine "the fulfillment of the performative model for the government policy PR practices." In this study “the performative model for the government policy PR practices" indicates "the model for the proper policy PR practices at the four different stages of carrying out a policy, i.e., the stages of policy designing, decision-making, carrying out, and evaluation. Accordingly, four research questions are explored surveying 160 government officials and the results of each question are briefly as follows: Firstly, at the stage of 'a policy designing' how substantially the PR research and proactive PR activities are carried out and is there substantial difference between the policy PR team and other task teams in the fulfillment of those policy PR activities? The study result shows that some substantial PR activities like planning, proactive communication, building media relation, etc. are being carried out. Secondly, at the stage of decision-making on the policy, how substantially the PR activities needed at this stage are carried out and is there substantial difference between the policy PR team and other task teams in the fulfillment of those policy PR activities? The study result indicates that some substantial PR activities like public analysis, issue analysis, PR program planning, building cooperative relationships are being carried out; yet, the limitation of PR budgets, personal resources, sincerity in proactive policy PR still needs to be improved. Thirdly, at the stage of 'carrying out a policy,' how substantially the PR activities needed at this stage are carried out and is there substantial difference between the policy PR team and other task teams in the fulfillment of those policy PR activities? The study result shows that at this stage such PR activities as internal communication, crisis management, PR agency consulting, publicity are often being practiced. Fourthly, at the stage of a 'policy evaluation,' how substantially the policy PR activities are evaluated and is there substantial difference between the policy PR team and other task teams in the fulfillment of the policy PR evaluation? The study result shows that a policy PR evaluation is mostly being focused on publicity on media and the evaluation result is sometimes used as the feedback for the next project. However, there appeared the lack of evaluation on those target audiences' attitude changes. And, at the four stages of carrying out a policy, there appeared respectively some significant differences between the policy PR team and other task teams in the fulfillment of those policy PR activities required at each stage.