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The Scope, Locus, and Method of Comparative Regulatory Studies

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2011, 21(4), pp.433-461
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

Choe,Shin-Yung 1

1숙명여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study evaluates the contribution of Korean researchers who studied regulatory policy from comparative perspective to acquisition and retention of knowledge on regulation by analyzing the scope, focus and methodologies empirically. The results shows that it needs more rigorous endeavor to meet the academic and practical demands in terms of quantity as well as quality. A few implications for future research are as follows. First, interdisciplinary studies among public administration, economics, and legal studies should be encouraged to expand theoretical orientation and knowledge exchange. Second, it needs to diversify the scope of comparison into other policy areas as well as various issue areas including comparative regulatory reform, regulatory impact analysis, and self-regulation. Third, more efforts should be delivered on indigenous theorizing and meta-theorizing rather than focusing policy prescriptions. It also needs to be encouraged to include middle range analytical units like regions, institutions, and groups in addition to nation-states. And finally, excessive dependence on qualitative methodology over quantitative methods needs to be compromised to enhance the methodological unbalance between them as the future challenges in addition to encouraging more rigorous comparative regulatory researches.

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