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100 1 _aKIM, Sunhyuk
_954482
245 1 0 _aAdministrative reform in South Korea :
_bNew Public Management and the bureacracy
260 _aLos Angeles :
_bSage,
_cDec. 2015
520 3 _aThis article analyzes the political dynamics of South Korea’s recent administrative reform. We argue that successive South Korean governments’ New Public Management-inspired reform programs have only achieved partial success. In particular, they have largely failed to attain their ultimate goal – i.e. significant weakening of the traditionally strong elite bureaucracy in policymaking. The bureaucracy in the country has not become weakened as a result of the reform. Rather, the central government ministries have augmented their power and institutional autonomy. Those who were in charge of designing and implementing reform measures were bureaucrats themselves who were supposed to be the ‘target’ of the reform. Such situation, in which the reformers were expected to reform themselves, has resulted in numerous incidences of sabotage, delay, obstruction, and distortion of the reform. This article concludes that it is crucial to consider the local contexts in which reform initiatives are adopted, interpreted, accepted, legitimated, and concretized for implementation
700 1 _aHAN, Chonghee
_954483
773 0 8 _tInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
_g81, 4, p. 694-712
_dLos Angeles : Sage, Dec. 2015
_xISSN 00208523
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