2019, Vol.30, No.3

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

In the United States, a school district as a local government has conducted its own government reform by operating charter schools among several school choice movement tools. This article empirically examines why the variation in government reform occurs among school districts. To seek an accurate answer to this research question, this study uses Colorado’s school districts as the units of analysis and tests six hypotheses created by the contents of public entrepreneurs, regional diffusion, and school district attribute factors. The final statistical results demonstrate that three predictor variables—public entrepreneurs, regional diffusion, and student population size—are statistically significant. That is to say, the statistical findings explain that a school district with many public entrepreneurs, many contiguous school districts having previously experienced similar government reform, and many K-12 students is more likely to conduct its own government reform. Meanwhile, this article contributes to developing Korean government reform by introducing the contents of the school choice movement (SCM), which has provided fundamental logic for the market-oriented government reform since the 1990s, to the Korean public administration field.

The purpose of this study is to find ways to improve evaluation system of the executive agency by exploring and verifying positive changes in the members of executive agencies during performance evaluation. As a result, it is confirmed that acceptance of evaluation results, acceptance of evaluation indicators, and organizational learning have a positive effect on evaluation utilization. This means that the higher the level of evaluation utilization, the more likely it is that the outcome of the assessment is fair or that the institution's vision and goals are well reflected. In addition, as organizational learning becomes more active, information and experience gained during the evaluation process are shared smoothly at the organizational level.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the network structure and characteristics between governments in the Participatory Budgeting (PB) operated at the local government level and the central government level, and to present a cooperative cooperation measures between the governments through this analysis. The PB in South Korea is divided into the citizen PB implemented by the local government and the national PB implemented by the central government. Citizen PB has been gradually expanded since it was first introduced in north district of Gwangju Metropolitan City. By revising the 2011 Local Finance Law and making the citizen PB mandatory, PB was implemented nationwide. On the other hand, the national PB implemented a model project in 2017 and has been fully implemented since 2018. However, although the citizen PB and the national PB have similar objectives, the cooperative relationship is not high. In this study, we investigate the significance of the PB, construct an analysis model through the theory of Intergovernment Relations (IGR), analyze the relationship between the government of the citizen PB and the national PB, present a proposal for cooperative cooperation. As cooperation measures for redesign of PB, we present cooperation such as project promotion, budget school, project proposal, and construction of a PB platform for project evaluation.