2017, Vol.28, No.1

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

A lot of studies have been done on the severe workload of public social workers, and many policies are initiated to ameliorate the problem. However, relatively few information has been disseminated on what exactly the burden means to the social workers themselves, other than the quantitative aspect of their job. By an analysis based on the grounded theory, I try to describe how the social workers perceive their work and how they relate the perception to different aspects of their job environment. It turns out that the public social workers in Seoul area see both the interaction between them and the clients and between them and other colleagues holding general administrative duties as an important source of job burden. On the other hand, I find that the workers in area other than Seoul think that there is a fundamental difference between them and people in general administration, and it is not well acknowledged. Both of the findings suggest that in order to make a more effective policy intervention, it is required to make a more qualitative change in the social service administration, specifically in the way the interaction between the workers and clients, or their colleagues, should take place

Although most corruption research has focused on the variables explaining the perception or intention of corruption, this study empirically identifies the factors affecting corrupt behaviors of citizens who have actually offered grafts to public officials. We examine time-invariant factors affecting corrupt behaviors in three dimensions- economic, institutional and cultural, using the survey data of KIPA (Korean Institute of Public Administration) on the corruption status in public offices of Korea from 2008 to 2012. Analysis results suggest that the citizens who offered grafts to public officials perceive high degree of expected benefit, possibility of disclosure and punishment level as causes of corruption. Among them, expected benefits turn out to be the most important and time-invariant factor. Meanwhile, the cultural and institutional factors are not significant. Even though the expected benefit is statistically significant, the predicted probability to commit graft is less than 10% even if citizens hold the highest expectation of benefits. It implies that marginal benefit of anti-corruption policy by reducing expected benefit may not be large as we expect. Hence we need to consider not only the benefit of controlling the causes of corruption but also the marginal cost of anti-corruption policies.

This study intended to analyze the co-authorship networks in Korean public administration research field from the perspective of interdisciplinary research, using the database of 67 scholarly journals and 27,233 articles for 2002-2016. In addition to describing the traits of interdisciplinary research in public administration research field, this study aimed to find out what kind of authors on the scholarly network have done interdisciplinary researches. Under the hypothesis of core network, this study tested empirically the relationship between the experience of interdisciplinary research and network centrality index. As results of empirical analysis, though traditional interdisciplinary relations with other classical social sciences such as politics, management, and law have been reduced, it was found that new type of interdisciplinary researches have been increased with policy administration and individual policy researches. Moreover, this type of interdisciplinary researches turn out to be done by the authors positioning at the center of the co-authorship network, which supports the hypothesis of core network.