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  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200764" />
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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200764</id>
  <updated>2026-04-29T22:04:12Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-29T22:04:12Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Participatory Governance and Policy Diffusion in Local Governments in Korea: Implementation of Participatory Budgeting</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200949" />
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    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200949</id>
    <updated>2023-11-29T02:32:52Z</updated>
    <published>2016-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Participatory Governance and Policy Diffusion in Local Governments in Korea: Implementation of Participatory Budgeting
Editors: Kim, Soonhee
Abstract: Government leaders' attention to participatory governance, public-private partnership, and community empowering has been increased in developing countries as well as developed countries as a way of enhancing public trust in government and overcoming economic and social challenges in governance. Korea is no exception. Especially, the evolution of participatory budgeting (PB) in the Republic of Korea shows very interesting dynamics in the context of democratization and decentralization. PB in Korea is a mandatory citizen participation program in local governments since enacting the Local Finance Act in 2011. The case of PB program in Korea presents an important policy diffusion process from a bottom-up approach to a top-down one concerning intergovernmental relations for implementing a citizen participation program. As PB has been implemented in all the local governments in Korea, it provides a great opportunity to conduct a nation-wide assessment study of the PB adoption and diffusion, local government capacity for the PB implementation, and the impacts of the PB on public administration and values in local governance. Focusing on local governments' experiences of PB implementation, "Participatory Governance and Policy Diffusion in Local Governments in Korea: Implementation of Participatory Budgeting," provides theoretical and practical insights for understanding policy diffusion, implementation capacity, impacts, and challenges. It further elaborates several policy recommendations for enhancing PB implementation capacity given the ongoing challenges of PB implementation, including weak financial independency of local governments, the relation between local government and local council, and the low level of citizen participation in the PB program.</summary>
    <dc:date>2016-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Measuring and Explaining Subjective Well-being in Korea</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200945" />
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    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200945</id>
    <updated>2023-11-26T02:10:17Z</updated>
    <published>2014-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Measuring and Explaining Subjective Well-being in Korea
Editors: Wang, Shun
Abstract: Subjective well-being has attracted sharply increasing attention among researchers and policy makers in recent years. The public also pays a lot of attention to it, evidenced by the heavy use of the word "happiness" in media. Some researchers argue that subjective well-being measures should serve as important and reliable measures of human well-being, complementary to the more traditional, more material wellbeing measures such as Gross National Income (GNI). The World Happiness Report 2012 and 2013 strongly support the idea. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being in 2013 to help governments planning to measure subjective well-being, and to provide standards for how it is done. The Korean government seems to move in this direction: One of the main agenda of the government of Korea is to increase the happiness of each citizen. However, there is no comprehensive study on Korea's subjective well-being to guide policy makers. For example, Korea is often labeled as an unhappy society, as reported by media and perceived by the public, based on some scattered evidence. Is it true? Existing studies do not provide a clear answer. This study is the first comprehensive investigation into subjective well-being in Korea. We aim to show a clearer and more complete picture of Korea's subjective well-being, including its past and current status, its distribution over time, cohorts, and regions, and its determinants, based on the vast majority of available data. We then offer a few tentative policy suggestions.</summary>
    <dc:date>2014-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Citizen Participation, Transparency, and Public Trust in Government: Participatory Budgeting in Local Governments of Korea</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200946" />
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    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200946</id>
    <updated>2023-12-30T02:54:36Z</updated>
    <published>2014-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Citizen Participation, Transparency, and Public Trust in Government: Participatory Budgeting in Local Governments of Korea
Editors: Kim, Soonhee
Abstract: The purpose of this book is to develop an integrated evaluation model of the success factors of effective participatory budgeting and understand the impacts of effective participatory budgeting on transparency and public trust in government in the context of the Republic of Korea. Testing the research propositions developed in the book would enhance the knowledge of what specific factors of individual, managerial, institutional, political, and cultural dimensions are relatively more significant than the others for implementing effective participatory budgeting in local governments of Korea. Drawing on a comprehensive literature review on antecedents of transparency and public trust in government, the book also offers a participatory budgeting model of transparency and public trust in government by emphasizing the roles of community values as mediator.</summary>
    <dc:date>2014-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>New Nuclear Power Industry Procurement Markets: International Experiences</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200944" />
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    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200944</id>
    <updated>2023-12-20T02:47:27Z</updated>
    <published>2014-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: New Nuclear Power Industry Procurement Markets: International Experiences
Editors: Nam, Ilchong; Rothwell, Geoffrey
Abstract: Ensuring safety and efficiency of the procurement market for nuclear power generation has become one of the top priorities of the policy makers in Korea since the discovery of a large number of fraudulent parts and components used by nuclear power plants. This book analyzes the nuclear power industry procurement in Korea, France, and the UK. Although all three countries restructured their electricity industry, they differ substantially in the history of the nuclear power industry, ownership and governance of firms in the industry, and relevant legal infrastructure. The findings of this book will shed light on the factors that affect safety and efficiency in the nuclear power procurement markets and the right direction for reform.</summary>
    <dc:date>2014-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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