2008, Vol.18, No.4

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

In recent years in the public discourse of many European countries there has been a shift in emphasis from poverty to social exclusion. Social exclusion is generally asserted to be multi-dimensional, in contrast to poverty, which is considered to be uni-dimensional and concerned with material resources taken alone. Social exclusion can be defined as a combination of lack of economic resources, social isolation, and limited access to social and civil rights. Social exclusion as a concept offers a broader perspective in addressing multi-dimensional disadvantage, especially in relation to social policy. The purpose of this study is to explore the concept of social exclusion and to find out the risk which women face and its implication for the women's policy in Korea. For this purpose, we provide an overview of some important thinkers about meaning of social exclusion, discuss the data and the empirical analysis, and deal with the implications of the results. The results show that there are many qualitative and quantitative differences between women and men, and women face a higher risk of social exclusion than the rest of the population.

This paper purports to examine the effect of trust in government on diverse participatory behaviors. Although many studies on trust in government have focused on the concept itself or determinants, they neglected the impact of trust in government especially on participation. To examine the discriminative effect, we categorized participation into institutional and non-institutional participation. The analytical result of analysis shows that trust in government does not have an effect on institutional participation, but have an effect on non-institutional participation.

In the knowledge-information age, Korean society has tried to find the new driving force to be an advanced country. To do so, government innovation has been made too much but it's still difficult to say that our government's competitiveness meets the people's expectations. In this circumstances, one of the possible alternatives is to strengthen the Strategic Human Resource Management(SHRM), which makes the government maintain its competitive advantage by emphasizing human capital. Therefore this study examines not only the meaning and cases of the SHRM in the public sector but also the relationship with the government's competitiveness. The policy implication of this study is that each public agency has to strengthen the strategic planning aligned with HRM, consider the vertical and horizontal integration among HR practices and emphasize the importance of the human capital.