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Explaining Local Government Reform

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2019, 30(3), pp.1-28
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration
  • Received : October 7, 2019
  • Accepted : November 26, 2019
  • Published : November 30, 2019

Jeongho Lee 1

1대전대학교

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ABSTRACT

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.

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