2005, Vol.15, No.4

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

pISSN : 1225-8652
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kspa

For the past ten years, Korean government have drove the government reform but many questions on the performance of the reform are raised by many researchers. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the performance of various government reform measures, to find out the obstacle factors to make those reform measures fail and to suggest the desirable methods and strategy of government reform.In order to achieve those research objectives, I did evaluation synthesis through content analysis on ten theses analysing the performance and the operation realities of the performance-based management programs such as Performance-based reward system, Management by objectives(MBO) and Open-system in higher civil service, which were introduced to Korean government as the tools of government reform during the period of Dae Jung Kim's administration.In conclusion, the performance-based management programs including Performance-based reward system, MBO and Open-system in higher civil service have no effectiveness because those programs are failing to accomplish the introduction objectives of each programs. The major reasons why those programs don't have effectiveness are identified as the cultural restraint, which occur by cultural inconsistency between the culture of public organization and the reform measures and cause government reform not to success. In addition, it is found out that symbolic politics is the main cause to push on with the introduction of performance-based management programs in spite of their incongruity to public culture and the probability to have no effectiveness.

After operation of local self-government system, lots of public commitments were suggested during election process. So, that kinds of public commitments are very difficult to induce some guarantee for actual suitability I think. In this points, this study tried to contents analysis about public commitments, because that will be a real policy through the election. It means public commitments are very important to the local. Finally, I grasp some tendency from public commitment and I tried to interpret philosophy of candidates that about environment and regional development for Jeju centering around tendency. The results of the analysis are five things briefly. First, the candidates of governor had a tendency that suggested development oriented public commitments than candidates of mayor in 6․27 election(1st local self-governmen election), but, in 2nd and 3rd, they suggested environment oriented public commitments. Secondly, by the view of political party, the government party candidates had more development oriented public commitments Thirdly, by the point of education, the candidates who have very high education or very low education were more development oriented and in 3rd election, candidates who has master degree or more suggested environment oriented public commitments. Fourth, in case of ages, in 3rd election, younger candidates were more development oriented and it reflected that bad economical situation. Lastly, elected persons were more environmental preservation oriented than defeated candidates. And this kinds of tendency will keep up in the future. [Key Words : 환경과 지역개발 의제, 선거공보물, 공약, 공약의 경향분석, 내용분석]

Traditionally, local government chief executive officers in Korea have been presumably thought to be a powerful leader in local government public decision. However, a primary issue in the future of local government is that of involving community and providing leadership where citizens are participating partners in governmental decision making. This study first refers to the situation approach in leadership theory and then develops a model where citizens' evalution for local government chief executive officers depends on five factors; local political, public financial, traits of local government chief executive officers, public service delivery performance, and individual characteristics of citizens. This study finds that the most important factor affecting citizens evaluation is public service delivery performance in local government with some variation across individual characteristics of citizens though the other factors are also related with citizens evaluation. Therefore, local government chief executive officers in Korea should do their best to enhance public service delivery performance while they should deal with citizens with speicial needs.