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An Empirical Study on the Processes and Types of 'Drift' in Quangos: Focused on the Korea Rural Community and Agriculture Corporation(KRCAC) Case Analysis

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2007, 18(1), pp.27-50
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

장철영 1 LEE. S. C 2 Sung, Do Kyung 3 Robert. J. Dickey 4

1대구외국어대학교
2부산대학교
3영남대학교
4경주대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study empirically analyzed the processes and types of 'drift' in Quangos, focussing on the Korea Rural Community and Agriculture Corporation(KRCAC). If we consider Quangos through the perspective of NPM(New Public Management), existence is justified only through realization of the organization's founding aims, and the changing social objectives: those that fail must be terminated. But as Flinders(2005) has observed, agencies, once formed, are difficult to terminate. KRCAC, examined in this study, is a typical example. KRCAC, without securing the autonomy and uniqueness vital to agency independence within the whirlpools of the political environment, thave repeatedly suffered conversion and distortion of goals, therefore 'drifting'. Review of these issues resulted in the following findings: types of drift can be explained by merger and termination, different types of drift are induced in different manners, and that the key player are different in differing types.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.