2019, Vol.30, No.1

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

The New Public Management(NPM) movement allows governmental agencies to initiate reforms in a way that various managerial techniques are implanted in the public sector. One of the techniques is pay-for-performance(PFP) which links pay to job performance in order to improve both individual-and organization-level performance. PFP had been operating for 20 years in government agencies since the Kim Dae-Jung administration adopted. The main purpose of this study is to diagnose the indigenization of PFP and analyze the causes of policy success or failure in Korea. Rather than imitating the PFP type of the specific country, Korean government designed our unique PFP system based on PFP ideas from OECD countries. Yet some problems of using PFP in government have emerged such as complaints and resistance of public managers, equal pay redistribution, and counter-evidence of PFP. Although the limitations of PFP are obvious, it has been operated in a path-dependence way. This paper suggests the three main reasons why PFP is implemented in an instable indigenization manner.

In Korea, the tax expenditure budget system has been operated by the central government since 1999 at the level of tax expenditure report. In 2007, the tax expenditure budget was started to be written in 2010 with the enactment of the National Finance Act. At the same time, local governments have been obliged to submit local tax expenditure reports to local councils since 2010 after pilot projects from 2006 to 2009 to introduce the local tax expenditure budget system, which is one of the management methods for local tax exemption and exemption. This study compared the introduction and operation of the local government 's local tax expenditure budget system with the central government' s tax expenditure budget through the transfer of the system and the theory of indigenization. First, the central government's tax expenditure budget is a normative homogeneity of advanced foreign financial systems, while the local government's local tax expenditure budget system can not exclude the nature of normative homogeneity at the national level. Second, the central government's tax expenditure budget system has been gradually developed and systematically supplemented by the tax expenditure budget in the tax expenditure report, but the local tax expenditure budget system has not been improved since the introduction of the local tax expenditure report in 2010. This can be understood as the institutional context related to the introduction of the system has had a very different impact on the process of institutional change after the introduction of the system. Based on these analysis results, we have presented some policy implications related to the improvement of the local tax expenditure budget system in the future.

This study empirically analyzed whether the public perception of the uncertain administrative environment affects the expectation of government expansion. It is likely for the public to expect the functions and the scope of the government expanded according to the perceived seriousness of the problems, such as those derived from the environment, society, economy and politics, and the perceived threats to international issues such as inter-state problems, transnational issues. Survey data were used to examine how their expectations differed according to their perceptions of domestic or foreign affairs. Findings indicate that the severe recognition of intergovernmental and transnational issues in South Korea had a statistically significant effect on the expectation that the government should be expanded while the serious recognition of environmental, social, economic, and political problems in domestic context did not. Also, they were likely to think that the government should be expanded when they believe the government was well capable of the function or their willingnesses to accept the policy were strong. The results suggest that the publics’ seriousness recognition of international problems can affect their expectations of governmental expansion.