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The will of the Participatory Government to decentralize authority away from central government to local governments has been considered to be stronger than any previous governments. However, in order to achieve visible results of the decentralization policies, technical process, which can define and control variety of factors, is critical. Especially, evaluation and opinion of local public officers regarding decentralization are important factor showing how successful central government decentralization policies have been, because local public officers are direct recipients of the policy. While there have been considerable amounts of researches done for decentralization, most researches only discussed direction of the decentralization policy. As two years have passed since the beginning of the Participatory Government, some researches have studied the consequences of the policy, but they tend to be based on qualitative studies. Therefore this article conducted survey to local public officers in order to evaluate how they feel about the decentralization policy of the Participatory Government. This study adopted not only qualitative study but also quantitative research method. It will provide valuable lessens about how local public officers evaluate decentralization policy of the Participatory Government and how much contribution they provide for the success of the policy.