The present Korean public administration and policy system has shown very significant differences compared to the system in 1970s. This book provides a comprehensive and holistic view on the development of Korean public policy and administration. Instead of dichotomizing the policy and administration, this book integrates two fields to provide a more holistic view on the Korean public sector. The book also attempts to overcome simplified explanations on the developmental state theory. The book aims to explain who the key actors are during the post-democratization period, how the administrative systems reform, and what kinds of social problems are transformed into public policies. This explanation suggests that the role of government shifts from a dominant actor to an actor within a complex network governance. This book will be a useful reference to anyone who wishes to learn more about the experience of the Korean development and the role of administration and policy.

This pamphlet contains leading articles published by the Seoul Press dealing with reforms in administration in Chosen (Korea) introduced since the Government-General of Chosen was reorganized with Baron Saito as Governor-General in August, 1919. These articles will, the Editor hopes, give their readers some idea of the situation in this peninsula and what measures the Government has taken to meet it.

In 14 essays derived from a joint symposium on the new public management held at San Francisco State University in February 1997, the 16 contributors (five of whom teach in South Korea) compare and contrast reinventing public structures and organizations in two countries where the winds of bureaucratic change are strong, and examine reforming administrative procedures, processes, and the regulatory process under President Kim Young-Sam. One message is that despite the popular emphasis on downsizing government, genuine reform is still policy-rooted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level. Unlike most previous accounts of reform, this book looks at how reform has changed the role of the public administration in democratic governance. Featuring case studies on the UK, Germany, France, Norway, Ireland, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Post communist states, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey and the European Commission, and focusing on two issues this book: Examines the significant variations in the "trajectories" of administrative reform among West European countries on the basis of empirically rooted research on different national case studies. Assesses the extent to which these "constitutive" public policies have affected the institutions of government and the governing processes of our democratic occidental states and ask how have NPM-inspired programs, with their exclusive focus on managerialist objectives and instruments, challenged the political and democratic nature of public administration? Looking at the broader issues relating to the current recompositions of democratic states, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of all matters relating to public administration and governance within political science, management, public law, sociology, contemporary history, and cultural studies.

▶ 이 책은 영어로 구성되어 있습니다. 『The Korean State Public Administration and Development』는 지난 65년 동안 한국의 국가 발전 과정에서 국가와 행정이 수행해온 역할과 과정, 그리고 그것을 위한 국가와 행정 자체의 발전에 대해 경험적으로 분석한다. 특히 한국의 국가와 행정이 어떻게 제도화되었는지에 대해 영역별로 나누어 분석한다.