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2021 National Agendas and Future Strategies
No full text한국의 국제 협력 관련 국가의제와 미래 전략 도출을 위하여 먼저 국제공헌에서의 우리의 위상을 먼저 검토하는 동시에 한국 국민의 인식 및 전문가 평가를 파악하기 위한 데이터 분석을 토대로 한국 사회의 현실을 진단하였다 국제공헌과 관련하여 . 정부가 추진하고 잇는 주요 정책을 국제협력과 남북관계 개선, 한반도 평화 측면에서 살펴보았다. 이를 토대로 국제공헌 및 한반도 평화를 위한 정책과제를 분석하였다.TRU
Strategic Portfolio Building in Donors' Multilateral Institutional Choice
Full text linkMore donors are formally assessing their multilateral aid disbursement policies as well as the multilateral institutions that they contribute to. Analyzing OECD Creditor Reporting System data from 2011 to 2019 of 23 donors and 34 multilateral organizations, we find evidence of institutional portfolio building of donors to align multilateral and bilateral aid channels. Such tendency is more pronounced for core-funding than multi-bi funding and much stronger at the recipient country level than at the sectoral level. Smaller donors that operate from a limited multilateral budget show greater preferences for geographical similarity. When donors give to institutions with sectoral specialization, they seek sectoral similarity with their bilateral aid.2
When Illusion Met Illusion: How Interacting Biases Affect (Dis)trust within Coopetitive Policy Networks
No full textCoopetition is a universal relationship in policy networks where various organizations cooperate and also compete with one another. Dealing with the ambivalent relationships in policy networks, organizations in the network need to assess their internal and external environments. However, such assessments are usually inclined to be biased for various reasons. The question is "If multiple organizations' assessment biases interact with one another, what happens to mutual trust or distrust?" This study explores the patterns and impact of interactions of assessment biases using surveys and interviews administered to nuclear-related public institutions in South Korea. The findings imply that the interactions of individual biases impact trust and distrust differently according to diverse dimensions of bias, including power, cooperation, competition, and contribution in policy networks. What determines trust or distrust among network members may not only be whether biases exist but also how biases of network members are combined and matched.1
Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World
No full text1. Backsliding: Concept, Mechanisms, Measurement
2. Social and Political Origins of Backsliding: The Role of Polarization
3. Constitutions in the Balance: Parties, Legislatures and the Collapse of the Separation of Powers
4. The Backsliding Process
5. Conclusio
Long-Term Growth Model in Myanmar Based on the Growth Trajectory of Vietnam
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to identify major drivers of Myanmar’s long-term economic growth and draw implications to implement development policies. This study investigated Myanmar, as the country is the most recently opened economy in Southeast Asia. This study conducted simulation analysis based on scenarios by applying World Bank’s Long-Term Growth Model, Penn World Table 9.1, and World Development Indicator data. This study makes extensive use of LTGM and the LTGM-TFP extension to improve the validity of models for data calibration. This study confirms the validity of the model with data calibration and specifies scenarios for simulation analyses by setting the growth trajectory of Vietnam due to common geographical, political, and economic conditions. Main findings include that Myanmar’s economic growth rate will continue to fall below 3% in 2040 without proper improvement of growth drivers. The results of this study also provide that total factor productivity growth and female labor participation are key factors for Myanmar’s long-term economic growth. This study advises policymakers in Myanmar to strengthen human capital, which is crucial for total factor productivity growth in Myanmar’s context and directly affects economic growth. Further, labor market policies to promote female labor participation is important to sustain economic growth.1
Developmentalist smart cities? the cases of Singapore and Seoul
No full textGovernments and companies across the globe are promoting smart cities, and their developments usually reflect both globally shared ideas and locally specific agendas and implementations. This paper examines the smart cities of Singapore and Seoul – two key global cities in Asia with legacies of state-led developmentalism. It discusses the two cities’ latest smart city endeavors, trajectories, and policy motivations. In particular, it explores the role of smart city policy in governments’ local and global agendas for development and argues that the two acclaimed cases can be interpreted as globally-oriented neo-developmentalist smart cities. In doing so, this paper also explains that the typically assumed developmentalist feature becomes much more complicated as it intermixes with the global cities’ international outlooks and aspirations as well as the changing demands from citizens in the post-developmental era.1
Understanding the Dynamics of Institutional Trust in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
No full textThis study sought to understand the dynamics of institutional trust in three Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. For this, the study used the latest wave of ‘The Asian Barometer Survey’ (2014–2016). Based on the analysis of the survey data from the Asian Barometer, this study found that along with perceived performance and governance quality, values and norms such as authoritarian cultural orientation (ACO) also affected the institutional trust of these countries. People with higher ACO had greater obedience that could affect the evaluation processes of those people and make them more positive or at least less critical, and accordingly create higher institutional trust. This finding may generate an important lesson that institutional trust may not just reflect rational calculation of institutional performance and governance quality, it may originate from other sources such as values and norms like ACO.1
Differential Effects of Information and Communication Technology on (De-) Democratization of Authoritarian Regimes
No full textUtilizing state–society relations as a theoretic framework, this study investigates whether the Internet is used to facilitate or impede democratization in authoritarian regimes. The present paper uses governance practice as the mediating mechanism, along with a regime's degree of authoritarianism as a moderator, to measure the direct and indirect effects of the Internet on democratization. This research found that the Internet can be mobilized to suppress political freedom in authoritarian regimes, while at the same time reinforcing the legitimacy of the regime's basis—both of these deter democratization. The Internet, as a tool, must be complemented by democratic deliberation to fully generate democratization.
Empleando las relaciones estado-sociedad como marco teórico, este estudio investiga si la Internet se utiliza para facilitar o impedir la democratización en los regímenes autoritarios. El presente artículo utiliza la práctica de gobernanza como mecanismo mediador, junto con el grado de autoritarismo de un régimen como moderador, para medir los efectos directos e indirectos de la Internet en la democratización. Esta investigación permitió descubrir que la Internet se puede emplear para reprimir la libertad política en los regímenes autoritarios y, a su vez, reforzar la legitimidad de la base del régimen, dos acciones que deterioran la democratización. La Internet, como herramienta, debe complementarse con la deliberación democrática para generar, en su totalidad, la democratización.
Cette étude se base sur les relations entre État et société comme cadre théorique pour chercher à savoir si Internet est utilisé pour faciliter ou entraver la démocratisation des régimes autoritaires. Le présent article utilise la pratique de gouvernance comme mécanisme de médiation, ainsi que le degré d'autoritarisme du régime comme mécanisme de modération, pour mesurer les effets directs et indirects d'Internet sur la démocratisation. Cette recherche a permis de constater qu'Internet pouvait être mobilisé pour réprimer la liberté politique dans les régimes autoritaires tout en renforçant dans le même temps la légitimité de la base du régime, ces deux aspects ayant un effet dissuasif sur la démocratisation. Internet, en tant qu'outil, doit être complété par une délibération démocratique pour générer pleinement de la démocratisation.1
the era of COVID-19
Full text linkThesis(Master) -- KDI School: Master of Public Policy, 2021Purpose of the study: The purpose of the study is to explore the application of introducing Augmented Reality (AR) technology to interact with customers and to enhance decision making via technology-enabled experience particularly needed in the context of COVID-19.
Fill the gap: The current research tries to contribute to the extant literature on customer behavior with AR technology by examining not only perceived utilitarian value and perceived hedonic value but also perceived social value and perceived risk on customer satisfaction as well as by investigating potential AR users’ customer behavior, which has not been studied much yet.
Research Question: The study tries to answer the two questions: (1) How do customers’ perceived values and perceived risk of AR functions affect customer satisfaction respectively? (2) How does customer satisfaction affect purchase intention and customer loyalty respectively?
Methodology: The research applies factor analysis and regression analysis to test the hypotheses and employs ANOVA and mediation effect analysis to explore additional findings.
Major findings: The results of the main regression analyses show that customers react more strongly to benefits of AR technology that are helpful to their functional consumption than to other dimension of benefits.
Implications: The findings of the study provides managerial and policy implications to develop and advertise the introduction of AR technology with the emphasis on the practical and utilitarian benefits of the technology. The result of this paper will highlight the importance of customer relationship management by providing advanced services to customers through AR technology.Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Literature Review
Ⅲ. Hypotheses Development
Ⅳ. Methodology
Ⅴ. Data Analysis
Ⅵ. ConclusionmasterpublishedSeungyeon HA
The Impact of the earned income tax credit program on children's human capital formation
Full text linkThesis(Master) -- KDI School: Master of Public Policy, 2021The present study quantifies the impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program on children’s human capital formation and explores the channels that map the policy in question to the observed outcomes. Building on the existing studies, I hypothesize the existence of two channels at work. On the one hand, a rightward shift of the family’s budget constraint is likely to map to, ceteris paribus, a higher level of children’s human capital. On the other hand, the nature of the program in question positively affects parental working hours on both intensive and extensive margins. The implied reduction in hours spent with children at home speaks against the promise of observing a more sustainable human capital formation. Thus, the net reduced-form impact is an empirical question. My findings reveal a robust relationship between the EITC benefit and children’s self-reported health. I also show suggestive evidence on improvements in educational performance of children generated by the program. These findings suggest that the program in question serves as a sustainable safety net well-attuned for the purpose of providing basic living standards for children from poor households.1. Introduction
2. Research Hypothesis and Related Literature
3. Data and Empirical Strategy
4. Findings
5. ConclusionmasterpublishedYaesung PAR