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Regulatory Policy Design and Policy Change: Case Study of Internet Regulatory Policy Target Groups’ Social Construction

  • Journal of Regulation Studies
  • 2011, 20(2), pp.119-149
  • Publisher : 한국규제학회
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

김동현 1 PARK, HYUNG JUN 1 Lee,Yongmo 2

1성균관대학교
2건국대학교

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ABSTRACT

Internet regulatory policy is becoming controversial policy area as Internet and Cyber-space rapidly influential to our society and life. Anonymity has caused many social problems in internet space. Therefore some groups advocate that government should regulate internet space and the other groups advocate still liberal policies to internet arena with self-regulation. Hence internet regulatory policies has changed without consistency in Korea government. In this paper, we argue that social construction of target group as regulatee is critical factor how to design internet regulation by government and their change of social construction make change internet regulations. We analyzed how to adopt a restrictive internet real-name identification regulation depends on target regulatee groups divergence and their social construction change. We can find the internet users are recognized as positive and innovative groups as public opinion maker in initial stage and policy designed to support and promote the internet usage. But they are divided and some groups have negative image after a series focused events. Government internet policy change from supportive policy to regulatory policy. In addition, we can find there are some gap between government officials and citizen’s cognition to target groups, it caused non-compliance to internet regulatory policy.

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