2006, Vol.17, No.2

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

This article aims to analyse the organizational changes in Korea public bureaucracy. Research objects are 145 central government level departments and agencies of shouth Korea, during the year 1948-2003. Data are collected by documents. Major themes are typology and the process of organizational changes, and life span of Korean public organizations. Results are: First, the average life span of them is 15.17 years. Second, the numbers of organizational changes are 209, Among them the number of birth is 102, the succession is 57, and the abolishment is 50. Third, a dynamic aspects of organizational changes are identified. Fourth, Some exceptional Characters in organizational changes are also found.

In this paper l examined the impact of transformational/transactional leadership on collective self-esteem and self-limiting behavior of the local government officials. The structural equation modeling has been employed to investigate the research model. The empirical study shows that transformational leadership has direct significant influence on collective self-esteem and self-limiting behavior, while transactional leadership has no any significant influence on them, and charisma and individualized behavior have direct significant influence on self-limiting behavior and almost all factors of collective self-esteem and also indirect significant influence on self-limiting behavior through them, while intellectual stimulation has no direct significant influence on self-limiting behavior, but has direct significant influence on collective self-esteem.

In recent years there has been a growing body of literature within public administration and political sciences that directly and indirectly uses, discusses and analyzes the processes involved in lesson-drawing, policy convergence, policy diffusion and policy transfer. While the methodology and focus often vary, all of these studies are concerned with a process in which knowledge about policies, administrative arrangements, institutions and ideas in one political setting is used in the development of policies, administrative arrangements, institutions and ideas in another political setting. The concept of policy transfer have become increasingly influential ways of understanding public policy. I tried to suggest the theoretical framework to analyze the role of policy transfer in policy making process. This article is divided into four major sections. The first section briefly considers the concept of, the research trend of policy transfer. The second section then presents a framework for the analysis of policy transfer. The third section outlines the limits of policy transfer itself and the framework of this paper. Finally, the last section addresses the future research agenda of policy transfer.