2003, Vol.12, No.1

Journal of Regulation Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.78

pISSN : 1738-7132
https://journal.kci.go.kr/ksrs2002

This study aims at setting up the menus for the successful regulatory reform governance in Korea. It first reviews the performance of the regulatory reform during the Kim Dae-Jung administration. It is shown that the future of the regulatory reform in Korea is highly uncertain. To reveal the proper ways and means of the successful regulatory reform in Korea, this study establishes the prescriptive references for the regulatory reform governance. This references depends on the systematic analysis of the experiences of the major OECD countries. The major tasks for the regulatory reform governance in Korea include (1) the substantial networking of the regulatory reform system with the other governmental reform systems, (2) enhancing the transparency and openness of the regulatory governance, (3) developing the mechanism for the active interactions among the bureaucracy, NGOs, and the other interest groups, (4) the substantial use of the RIA as an instrument for the regulatory reform

The public’s preferences for and attitude toward regulatory policy have almost no bearing on the theory of market failure, on the basis of which economists usually make the case for or against regulation. Instead, whatever values and beliefs the public tend to endorse, they determine, in large measure, the directions and contents of regulations. It is thus no surprise that the NGOs play an immensely important role in the areas of regulatory policy today. Political scientists tend to view the differences in the public's policy preferences from the perspective of liberalism versus conservatism. This dichotomy does not lead us far toward understanding today's public debate over regulatory policies. By adopting a concept of regulatory culture, this paper seeks to approach such issues as being raised in the area of regulation but inexplicable by virtue of existing theories. Just as political scientists generally attribute different adherences to certain political parties and political ideologies to political culture, so would this paper try to explain differences in the public's preferences for or against certain regulations by harnessing the new concept of regulatory culture, which can be defined as “values and beliefs concerning the institutional construction of regulations.” For this purpose, a new theory(grid-group theory) of political culture pioneered by Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky will be highlighted in an attempt to explore the extent to which the theory could be made beneficially applicable to the study of regulation. Some implications follow.

There have been significant variations in the demographic compositions and experience distribution of the armed forces. In light of social costs and burden distribution etc., the question about reasonable conscripted term of military service in the draft has been a serious issue and been furiously debated. This survey is an empirical study of the supply and demand for military manpower in the future and provides implications for reasonable conscripted term. But, this survey does not pay much attention to the military downsizing now underway and elsewhere. It is too early to tell what effects they will have on various measures of the effectiveness and how changed military organizational structures associated with future national security and military strategies might be modified to minimize their impact.