
- Institutional change and continuity in Korea's central agencies, 1948-2011
- Jung, Yong-duck; Lee, Yoon-ho; Kim, Deok-soo
- Seoul National University
Title |
Institutional change and continuity in Korea's central agencies, 1948-2011
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Material Type | Articles |
Author(English) |
Jung, Yong-duck; Lee, Yoon-ho; Kim, Deok-soo |
Publisher |
[Seoul, S.Korea] : Seoul National University |
Date | 2011 |
Journal Title; Vol./Issue | Korean Journal of Policy Studies:vol. 26(no. 1) |
Pages | 28 |
Subject Country | South Korea(Asia and Pacific) |
Language | English |
File Type | Link |
Subject | Government and Law < Political Systems Government and Law < Public Administration |
Holding | Seoul National University |
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Abstract
This article analyzes Korea’s central agencies, which have been organized and reorganized to support presidential executive leadership since the foundation of the Republic. Each central agency has carried out the standardization of a core administrative function which is essential to the operation of administrative apparatuses, including policy planning and coordination, budgeting, organizing, staffing, legislation, public relations, central-local relations, control and performance evaluation, etc. The six decades of institutionalization can be characterized, based on the central agencies’ proportion of the total administrative apparatus, into three phases: high (more than 35 percent, 1948-1961), middle (around 20 percent, 1962-2007), and low (about 10 percent, 2008-present). (The rest omitted)