Ideas, Networks, and Policy Change: Explaining Strategic Privatization in Korea

• 발행기관: 한국학술연구원
• 저자명: Whasun Jho Taeyoung Yoo
• 간행물 정보: 『Korea Observer』Vol 45, No 2, 179~210쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 정치외교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.06.30

영문 초록

This paper analyzes the relationship between organizational changein the public sectors of an economy and the coordination traditionsof a society. Due to the financial crisis of 1997, many countries inAsia have shifted toward a market-driven economy and privateownership. However, each country selected a different path for theirprivatization policy and exhibited diverse capacities in pursuingeconomic reform. The specific case of South Korea, labeled a stateactivisteconomy, illustrates that the scope and scale of privatizations are strategically selected by the government, and that evenprivatized firms remain strongly influenced by the government. Inthis paper, we complement the literature by examining two relativelydisregarded factors in understanding the heterogeneous responseof each economy to privatization, i.e., the ideas of policy-makersand the policy networks between the state and business sectors.

목차

Abstact

I. Introduction

II. Ideas, Networks, and Policy Change

III. A State-Activist Approach in Korea: Strategic Privatization

IV. Ideas and Policy Networks for Strategic Privatization

V. Discussion and Conclusion

References

키워드

Ideas Network Reform Privatization Regulation and Policy Change