Ideas, interests and practical authority in reform politics: Decentralization reform in South Korea in the 2000s

• Main Author: BAE, Yooil
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Decentralization; Central-local relationship; Idea; Institution; South Korea; Asian Studies; Political Science; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1851; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3108/viewcontent/Ideas_interests_and_practical_authority.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper explains the reason why the hitherto statist country, Korea, has carried out significant decentralization since the 2000s. In explaining the motivation for decentralization, extant literature has focused on the role of parties, bureaucratic politics, democratization, or territorial intere...