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행정개혁, 절반의 성공: 신제도주의 동형화 관점에서의 사례분석

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2008, 19(3), pp.1-23
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

Choe, Chang Soo 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to point out that securing legitimacy of the government organizations was an important goal of Kim Daejung government's administrative reform in the late 1990s. From the neo-institutional isomorphic perspective, this paper examines the reasons for which the Kim Daejung government's introduced the so-called New Public Administration-based administrative reform programs in the middle of economic crisis. Result of analysis shows that the neo-institutional isomorphism explains well the reasons of the Kim Daejung government's administrative reform. While reform pressure from the international organizations such as IMF which provided funds, and criticism and pain-sharing demands from the society caused coercive isomorphic change, environmental uncertainty, lack of core technology, mismatch between the mission and the functions in government organizations caused mimetic isomorphic change on the other hand. Kim Daejung government was successful in securing the legitimacy of government organizations by adopting the minimalist state-oriented government reform strategy. However, improving efficiency of government administration as an another goal of administrative reform achieved limited success because the NPM-based reform programs were implemented without fulfilling preconditions for those.

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