2015, Vol.26, No.3

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

There have been a criticism about the local council's legislative activities. This is because the model did not exist a reasonable and objective to evaluate the performance of legislative activities of local councilors so far. So there is the limits on strategic approaches for improving the performance of the future orientation of the local council or legislative action. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the local councils legislative activities through a empirical approach to the legislative activities of local councils. For this purpose, this research focuses in comparing the recognition of local government officials with performance of the local councils legislative activity. Analysis of the results of the local council legislative activity, first issue, the biggest problems is appeared to process complaints of residents. Second, as to whether there were conflicts between the local council and the executive and local government officials, most recognized, for this reason among political problem. Problems with the residents related activities of the local council which is inhabitants unreasonable residents demands, family events oriented visiting for the residents. Problems of local ordianace enacted and amended legislation such as the local councils were insufficient expertise of local councilors. There was a problem for the budget review and the settlement accounts activities of the local council budget process, including complaints relating to individual councilor. The council's administrative audit and investigation activities, excessive data requirement could identify the serious problems. Issues of policy development activities of the local council, the insufficient expertise were the most serious.

Urban shrinkage started in advanced countries and it has become widespread throughout the world. Many small- and medium-sized cities in Korea also suffer from urban shrinkage. Yet, in Korea, the debate over urban regeneration is still based on the premise of continual urban growth. We argue that many current problems in small cities are better approached on the premise of urban shrinkage. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, to examine the concept of urban shrinkage & a conceptual framework for the study of urban shrinkage; second, to discuss strategies to deal with urban strategy and illustrate the cases of significant urban shrinkage and policy responses to urban shrinkage. This paper concludes that we need to reconsider current urban strategy on the premise of urban shrinkage.

Despite continued increase in ODA budget, we do not know much about the relationship among NPO's organizational capacity, financial transparency, and financial supports. This aims to construct theoretical framework and empirically investigate how organizational capacity of NPOs and financial transparency affect government's financial supports. The capacity of International Development NPOs includes both internal management capacity, boundary-spanning capacity, and financial transparency. Internal management capacity represents business capacity, professionalism, and external resource mobilization capacity while boundary-spanning capacity represents human mobilization capacity and financial resource mobilization capacity. Boundary-spanning capacity includes networking capacity, international status and social reputation. Tobit regression analysis is adopted to test posited hypotheses. The empirical results suggest that financial resource mobilization, professionalism, social reputation, and networking activities appear to affect the size of financial support. This study also finds that there are negative interaction effects of financial transparency with both networking activities and business capacity on government's financial supports. The results suggest that international development NPOs should enhance professionalism, financial resource mobilization, and social reputation in order to increase their government subsidies. Financial transparency appears to be helpful in increasing government subsidies particularly to the NPOs which are low in business and networking capacities.