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Local Discretion and Environmental Policy Making in South Korea: Three Models and a Test
TAOJILL LESLIE 서울대학교행정대학원 2016 The Korean Journal of Policy Studies Vol.31 No.3
In South Korea, policy tools and priorities are set at the national leveland are controlled through both budget allocations and audits conducted on anannual basis. I look at the degree to which local officials adapt their budget allocationsto address local rather than national concerns in securing better air quality,using three different theoretical models: principal-agent, representative bureaucracy,and democratic responsiveness. I raise questions about the degree of control aunitary state can exercise over local problems and how this is reflected in localpolicy choices, especially in areas where the national government’s zone ofindifference is large, such as environmental policy. Panel data across 5 years(2007 to 2012) and from 9 geographically and socioeconomically diverse areaswithin South Korea indicates that local officials respond to local environmentalconditions by allocating more resources when needed. I discuss the implicationsfor autonomy in a local policy space.
Fiscal Stress and Its Impacts on Local Expenditure Autonomy
이종열,TAOJILL LESLIE 한국지방정부학회 2012 지방정부연구 Vol.16 No.3
The global economic crisis that began in early 2008 has had immeasurable impacts on the levels of governments, but local governments have found themselves precariously wedged between the rock of calls for austerity and the hard place of reduced revenues. This has forced local governments to make hard choices; in doing so, they have demonstrated policy preferences that would not be as evident in times of fiscal freedom. This study examines how local governments in South Korea make policy expenditure decisions under the constraints of severe fiscal stress. Using local government revenue and expenditure data from nearly all local government units in South Korea (n=237), we found that in contrast to similar fiscal stress periods in the U.S., general administrative expenditures including personnel were most likely to be cut, but expenditures on public safety and assistance to small business were likely to increase. Education, on the other hand, was not a protected category of expenditure. This finding seems to be at odds with the international attention and praise the Korean public education system has received.