Kim Jungbu

Hurricane Katrina vividly showed that policy compliance can be a life-or-death matter in times of natural disasters. Although a substantial number of emergency management studies examined the determinants of evacuation compliance, they largely focused on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Research in policy implementation shows that public confidence in government institutions and knowledge about policies implemented are critical factors for securing compliance from target population

Given the importance of encouraging residents of a disaster-stricken community to remain there during the recovery process, this paper examines the determinants of disaster evacuee decisions to return to their communities, and if they return, to stay in the community where they lived before the disaster. The data come from two panel surveys of Hurricane Katrina survivors. The surveys were taken in 2005, just after Katrina, and again in 2006, a year after the disaster. Although the study sample i

Abstract Governments oftentimes fail to satisfy high demanders of public services, leaving room for the nonprofit sector. How can the government deal with this government failure? Must it resort to tax increases or should it engage the nonprofit sector? Using the public polls conducted in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, this study aims to explore an empirical answer to this question. In particular, we contrast the determinants of the willingness of an individual to pay more tax with those of the

Faced with ever increasing pressures for better performance and financial bottom line, governments around the world are devolving more responsibilities to subnational governments. Especially in developing countries, this trend has coupled with increased demands for greater democracy and disaffection with the services provided by the central government. This article examines what has happened in South Korea since its devolution reform in 1995. Specifically, it examines political capital factors i

Public administration as a field of study (PA) has long suffered from a chronic identity crisis. Against such a background, by adopting Michel Foucault’s governmentality perspective, this paper critically examines the key assumptions and orientations of public administration and its relationship with the state. The basic arguments are that PA’s silence about the nature of the state has led to the chronic identity crisis and that PA has yet to offer a coherent vision for redefining itself in the

This study explores how the gender and racial composition of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) portion of the federal workforce has changed, and how female and minority employees with STEM degrees compare with White majorities and those with degrees in non-STEM fields. Using a series of ordinary least square analyses of a 1% random sample of federal employees for 1983, 1996, and 2009, this study finds that gender and racial pay disparities have decreased over the study

The ability of public health to meet its functional mandates of assessment, assurance, and policy development footline is driven by the system's capacity to meet basic financing needs. To do so, state and local public health leaders must be able to articulate financing needs in terms that are understandable to policy makers and that link funding to anticipated community impact, benefit, and performance. "Rational" budgeting demands imposed by performance-centered budgeting in the states have pro

This article examines political cost factors that affect a state's propensity to adopt a corporate income tax credit to encourage research and development (R&D) activities in the United States. Assuming state elected officials are vote-maximizers, this article hypothesizes that politicians' consideration of potential revenue losses and influence from organized interests are critical in a state's decision to provide a R&D tax credit. To test the hypothesis, two statistical models are specified. W

While research and development (R&D) expenditure is crucial in a nation's competitive advantage, factors determining levels of public investment in R&D have yet to be examined. This article seeks to fill this void, focusing on different democratic institutions such as presidential versus parliamentary systems, majoritarian versus proportional electoral systems, federal versus unitary systems, bicameral versus unicameral legislatures, and the effective number of parties. Building upon theories of

Local governments have endeavoured to be fiscally better prepared against adverse economic downturns, and revenue diversification (RD) is considered one of such efforts. This study examines how Korean local governments have utilised diversification as a managerial strategy between 2007 and 2010. Focusing on local elected administrators’ (LEAs’) previous career, it reports that local governments with administrators with business experiences diversify revenues more than those with politics-turned

본 논문은 푸코의 통치성 관점에서 근대 재정국가 등장의 핵심 내용인 재정·예산제도의 형성 및 발전과정을 시론적으로 분석하고 있다. 특히 영국, 프랑스, 미국 등 민주적인 재정제도를 혁명적 과정을 통해 도입하여 근대국가 통치성을 구현하고 그 물적 기반을 확충한 나라들을 대상으로, 세입 및 세출에 대한 민주적통제와 효율적 관리를 위한 집권적 예산제도 도입 및 재무행정 관료제의 발전과정에 초점을 맞춘다. 영국은1215년 대헌장에서 군주의 징세권을 제한하기 시작한 이래 명예혁명을 거치면서 의회가 징세와 지출에 대한 통제권한 확보하고 나아가 예산과정 전반에 대한 규율을 강화하였다. 반면, 프랑스의 앙시앵 레짐은 높은 직접세 비율을 현저히 낮추지 못하면서 분권적이고 비효율적인 재정체계로 인해 결국 대혁명을 맞았고, 이후 근대적 재정제도로 혁신하고 중앙집권화 하였다. 미국 또한 독립 직후 의회가 조세 및 지출을 심의· 의결하도록 하여 재정민주주의의 헌법적 기초를 놓았고 20세기 초반에 대통령에게

Although empirical evidence abounds on the determinants of intergovernmental transfers in the decentralized context, not many studies focus on the career and educational characteristics of local elected administrators. As local governments around the world are assuming increasingly more revenue authorities and expenditure responsibilities where local administrators play the role of managers as well as politicians, examining how local fiscal strategies are formulated is of critical importance for

푸코의 통치성 개념은 사회과학 여러 분야에 매우 활발하게 적용되어, 현대국가와 사회의 구석구석에 뻗어 있는권력관계와 그 효과에 대한 깊이 있는 분석을 가능하게 하고 있다. 이들 연구들에서 원용하고 있는 통치성 개념은 주로푸코가 1977-79년 사이 Collège de France에서 진행한 일련의 강의들에 근거하고 있다. 이에 따르면 통치성은 근대사회에서 국가가 개인들을 인구의 구성인자로 권력작용의 장에 포섭하고 통치하는 논리·기법·제도의 총체(ensemble) 를 의미한다. 하지만, 푸코는 생의 마지막 시기인 1980년대 초에 진행한 일련의 강의들에서 자기 자신에 대한 관계(relationship of self to self), 자기보살핌(care of the self) 및 진리담론으로까지 통치성 개념을 확장하고 있다. 이에 따라 통치성이 자아의 기술(technologies of the self), 자기통치 및 주체성의 문제까지 아우를 수 있도록 새롭게 개념화 할 필요가 있다. 즉

Abstract This chapter explores the possibility of knowledge transfer from South Korea to neighboring Asian countries through incoming Asian students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Korea is aggressively trying to attract foreign students and the share of foreign students in STEM fields is increasing. However, the majority of graduates tend to return home upon completion of their degrees. The Korean case discussed offers a series of interpretations and policy directio

This study examines 1) whether the different expenditure mechanisms used by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invite different sources of influences on the budget process and thus on the expenditure outcomes and 2) whether the frequent use of omnibus appropriations bills since 1996 has changed budget levels of the institutes under the NIH. The NIH uses two major expenditure mechanisms with very different beneficiary groups: the principal investigator-initiated Research Project Grants and I