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Governance Mechanisms to Mobilize Civil Society Organizations for International Development Cooperation A Comparative Analysis of Japan and Germany and Its Implications for South Korea

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2010, 8(2), pp.193~234
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

김태균 1 Myung Joon Park 2

1와세다대학교
2베를린자유대학

Candidate

ABSTRACT

By a comparative analysis of German and Japanese experiences in the sense of how each case has developed the relationship between the state and civil society organizations (CSOs) in implementing international development projects, this article sets out to elicit some constructive implications for the prospect of the Korean way of state-civil society relations. The two patterns of state-civil society links are advanced as a plausible parameter to demonstrate the distinctive features between Japanese and German paths of incorporating civic demands into the official process of decision-making. While the German case could be identified with ‘horizontal governance’ which comes to mean civic associations’ proactive participation in all-round stages of the government’s decision-making procedures,the Japanese one shows a typical example of ‘vertical governance’, which captures a limited window of opportunity for CSOs to get into the official channels of governmental agencies. The whole review of the two advanced donor states’ institutional efforts to mobilize civic forces for the purpose of effective implementations leaves us to realize that the pattern of horizontal governance would be a better solution for the future path of the Korean model for the positive links between the state and civil society.

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