2009, Vol.19, No.4

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

For more than some decades the non-publicness of goods provided by local governments has been attempted to find out that how much they are public or non-public. Recent studies of local public good provision report publicness parameter estimates about one, which is indicating that the local public goods seems to have private good characteristics. It is argued that the observed values of the publicness parameters have no normative significance as to the merits of public versus private provision. If the local public good was a pure public good, the publicness parameter would take on a value of zero; progressively larger values for local public goods indicate that they are private goods. Using the original Bergstrom and Goodman model and South Korea data, this paper shows that there is high evidence of publicness in fire fighting service, but there is even less evidence of publicness in culture, social security, environmental management, road reconstruction. That is to say, some of the local public goods seem to be private goods. Household elasticity of expenditure is the main variable in publicness parameter determination. This paper also contends a measurement problem i.e. so called the zoo effect has led to upwardly biased estimates of the degree to which local public goods are subjected to publicness. Further more, supply size and subfunctions of local public goods enable to get more plausible estimates of their publicness..

The Korean government designed new social service management system titled “Community Social Service Investment Program” (CSI) in the year 2007. The several new policy values are considered in CSI program such as social infrastructure investment and universal social welfare, consumer-directed, social service market, leverage for social service industry, block grant for the inter-government welfare fiscal relationship etc. More than three hundred social services are supported by CSI program in 2007. In this paper, first, I established the logic of the key concepts in CSI program. Second, the CSI's policy structure and performance were reviewed with the CSI’s new policy values. Finally, I suggested several policy recommendations for speeding up the CSI program.

Transaction cost theory has been used significant role in many areas to explain governance mechanism. In these studies, transaction cost has been measured with transaction attributes, such as asset specificity, environmental uncertainty and transaction frequency. This research, contrast with other studies, reviews the relationship between transaction attributes and transaction cost. To analyse this issue, we break down transaction cost as information cost, measurement cost, negotiation cost, monitoring cost, enforcement cost. Also, we consider transaction attributes such as asset specificity, environmental uncertainty, legal & institutional aspects and so on. Using public information system outsourcing, this study finds that only some transaction attributes are significant to transaction costs.