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Korean public finance
No full textThis chapter provides an overview of the key characteristics of public finance in Korea, including a brief explanation of the country’s budgeting process and a fiscal condition analysis. Compared to the other OECD member countries, Korea has had a relatively healthy fiscal condition in that it has had a fiscal surplus for quite a long period of time until recently. However, it is possible that the fiscal health of Korea will deteriorate in the future. Challenges may come from multiple factors such as the aging population, sluggish economic growth, declining revenue, expenditure growth (especially social spending), and debt accumulation. All of these factors may undermine the fiscal sustainability of Korea, requiring the fiscal authorities of Korea to make preemptive efforts to overcome the possible challenges.1. Introduction, Chung-in Moon and M. Jae Moon
Part 1: Korean Politics
2. Political Institutions in Korea, Yoojin Lim and Jungho Roh
3. Political Culture and Behavior, Ji-yoon Kim
4. Political Process- elections, interest group politics, and mass media, Jong-sung You
5. Political Parties, Yoonkyung Lee
6. Political leadership, Sangyoung Rhyu
7. Political Polarization- regionalism, ideology, and generational changes, Wook Kim
Part 2: Korean Foreign Policies and National Security
8. Korean Foreign Policy - A Historical Overview, Ki-jung Kim
9. Korean Foreign and National Security Policy- actors, structure, and process, Jong-Yun Bae
10. National Defense, Young-geun Kwon
11. Unification Policy, Sangkeun Lee and Chung-in Moon
12. National Intelligence, Chung-in Moon and Woong Chun
13. Managing North Korea, Yong-ho Kim
14. Managing Big Powers, John Delury
15. ROK and the Middle Power Diplomacy, Yul Sohn
Part 3: Korean Public Administration and Governance
16. Korean Civil Service Systems from Recruitment to Retirement, Sungjoo Choi
17. Public Service Motivation in Korea, Chansu Jung and Seeun Ryu
18. Performance Management in Korea, Jungwook Lee
19. Citizen Participation in Korea, Younhee Kim
20. E-government and Digital Governance, M. Jae Moon and Jooho Lee
21. Korean Public Finance, Chul Liu and Kangkoo Lee
22. Public Trust and Transparency in Korea, Kwangho Jung
23. Public Corporations and Quasi-government Organizations in Korea, Sanghee Park
Part 4: Korean Public Policies
24. Korean Economic Policies, Heonjoo Jung
25. Korean Social Welfare Policies, Jaejin Yang
26. Korean Environmental Policies, Kyungjun Yun and T.J. Lah
27. Korean Information and Communication Technology Policies, Samyoul Lee
28 Korean Science and Technology Policies, Eunjung Shin and Eric Welch
29 Korean Health Policies, Do Hyung Kim, Soojin Min and Hyoungah KimTRU
Budgetary Punctuations: A Fiscal Management Perspective
No full textAlthough the development of punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) makes broad reference to the bureaucratic procedures that regulate budgetary decision-making and makes reasonable assumptions about the influence that those procedures have on the dynamic of resource allocation, little is known about how the specific mechanisms work. This has led to a call to “understand the processes which lead to friction in greater detail” (Baumgartner et al, 2009). This research examines how budgetary output patterns are influenced by fiscal strategic choices made by governments. We find significant deviations of budgetary output patterns in capital projects, restricted funds, and entitlement spending, thus signifying the influence of fiscal management practices on resource allocation decisions. Furthermore, we empirically associate spending punctuation patterns with the growing democratic institutional development in Hong Kong. By examining legislative filibuster cases related to capital projects, we found evidence associating democratization with greater institutional frictions and consequently with larger budgetary output punctuations
Public sector corruption and perceived government performance in transition
No full textWe offer evidence that public sector corruption has an inverse association with evaluations of performance at both the local and central government levels. Consistent with ex ante expectations, perceptions of corruption among local government officials are directly and negatively related to performance evaluations at the local government level and relatively less so at the central government level. Conversely, perceptions of corruption among overall government officials have a stronger negative association with performance evaluations of central governments relative to performance evaluations of local governments. These results confirm that individual evaluations of public sector corruption affect perceived government performance evaluations, with local–local, local–central, central–local, and central–central level variances. Regressions by country groups—such as European Union membership, or geographic clusters, such as Southeastern Balkan or the former Soviet Union states—continue to support the core findings with one caveat. Results from two-level random intercepts and slopes regression models show that the negative association between perceived corruption and government performance evaluation is weaker in contexts with relatively higher levels of public corruption.1
Effective Resource Management of Governments and Corruption
No full textThis paper shows theoretically and empirically that public officials’ corruption is likely to degrade the quality of government management practices. By shedding light inside the classic “black box” idea of management, we explain how public corruption exerts a bad influence upon leadership, use of information and resource allocation. This bad influence of public corruption, as a consequence, will deteriorate the overall management quality of governments by weakening the integration of management subsystems. Data support our arguments by showing that increase in public corruption in an American state government decreases the probability significantly that the state may maintain its management excellence. The paper also demonstrates that infrastructure management of state governments is most vulnerable to corruption. Two-stage least squares instrumental variable (2SLS-IV) regressions support the robustness of our model and the empirical results
Public Corruption and Government Management Capacity
No full textThis article demonstrates, theoretically and empirically, that public corruption is likely to degrade government management capacity and its sub-dimensions such as human resource management, information management, financial management, and capital (infrastructure) management. By shedding light on the classic black box idea of management, we explain that public corruption deteriorates government management capacity by hampering an effective integration of the sub-dimensions of management. Using panel ordered logit regressions and the generalized method of moments estimations, we find a statistically significant negative association between public corruption and the overall management capacity of the U.S. state governments. Across the sub-dimensions of government management capacity, the harmful impact of corruption is most evident in capital and infrastructure management, even in the context of the U.S. state governments. This requires policymakers’ special attention to capital and infrastructure management practices, even in the most advanced country of the management system.1
Testing the Determinants of Corruption from Multiple Theoretical Lenses: The Case of the U.S. States
No full textThis article compares the determinants of public corruption from multiple theoretical lenses and then tests which ones are more effective in curbing public corruption in the context of the U.S. states. We find that the stringency of state tax and expenditure limits, fiscal transparency, voter turnout rates, unified Democratic control, divided control of state governments, political competitiveness, population with Scandinavian ancestry, and educational attainment are all significantly and negatively associated with the extent of public corruption. Compared with other approaches to curbing corruption (i.e., the lawyer’s approach, the businessman’s approach, and the economist’s approach), those that restrict public officials’ discretionary power and encourage educated citizens’ participation appear to be more effective in reducing corruption in the U.S. states
Liu Kang
No full textLiu Kang: Essays on Art and Culture is a testament to the inexorable passion of an artist who knew no boundaries. This collection of essays, which Liu Kang wrote over 44 years, offers an insight into the artist’s myriad interests as well as his contributions as a first generation Nanyang artist and art educator. Translated into English for this volume, Liu Kang’s essays are accompanied by commentaries and photographs of the artist-author and his subjects
Corruption and Tax Structure in American States
No full textWe examine the extent to which public corruption influences the tax structure of American states. After controlling for other tax structure influences, we find that states with greater measured public corruption have more complex tax systems, have higher tax burdens, rely more heavily on regressive indirect taxes, and have smaller shares of their tax burdens with initial impact on business. These are significant structural impacts on the tax systems.1
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