2011, Vol.22, No.2

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

This study aims to introduce the analytical logic for positively analyzing and recovering the ideological structure of policy conflicts, which can be seen in citizens’ policy preferences and inferred preferences by citizens of major political figures and parties, as well as social institutions. Here, the ideological structure of policy conflicts is composed of small variations that compress and summarize the policy conflicts. I present models for recovering the ideological structure of policy conflicts from the multidimensional policy space which is composed of a variety of policy issues. Similarly, models are presented for identifying the points of citizens' policy preferences and inferred preferences of major political figures, parties, and social institutions in the simplified space created by ideological structures. I present some core models of modern spatial theory and some modifications, along with a method for interpreting the meaning of the recovered underlying ideological structure or dimensions. To empirically recover and identify the ideological structural space of policy conflicts, I detail the research subjects, scale construction, and logic of data analysis.

This study suggests some options to develop citizen ombudsman of Korean local government by literature review and in depth interview with members of citizen ombudsman advisory committee. And the article also aims to analyze priorities among 2 primary options and 6 secondary options by AHP method. Major findings of the AHP analysis are as follows. The first priority among options is to assure the effectiveness of advice and investigation right of citizen ombudsman. The support of city mayor is the second important option. And the third priority option is to activate the citizen ombudsman advisory committee.

This study reviewed previous research on fiscal sustainability, formulated a model for analyzing the sustainability of fiscal deficits, explained estimation methods, and performed unit root and cointegration tests for government debt and consolidated primary fiscal balance in Korea from 1980 through 2009. The empirical results show that while there is a cointegrating relationship between consolidated primary fiscal balance and government debt from 1980 through 2009, which implies that fiscal balance is sustainable, there is not a cointegrating relationship between these two fiscal variables from 1997 through 2009 after the exchange currency and global financial crises, which indicates that fiscal balance is not sustainable.