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STATE RESTRUCTURING AND PATHWAYS TO LOCAL DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICS OF DECENTRALIZATION IN JAPAN AND KOREA
by
Yooil Bae
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLITICAL SCIENCE)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Yooil Bae
Object Description
| Title | State restructuring and pathways to local democracy: idea and politics of decentralization in Japan and Korea |
| Author | Bae, Yooil |
| Author email | ybae@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Political Science |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-08-24 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-10-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sellers, Jefferey M. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Shipper, Apichai W. Tang, Shui Y. |
| Abstract | The objective of this dissertation is to provide a holistic explanation for recent response to globalizing economy through decentralization in Japan and Korea. The research question suggested in this dissertation is why Japan and Korea suddenly passed the decentralization laws that contain massive migration of central authorities and fiscal resources to subnational governments in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. What caused various modes and degrees of decentralization, despite similar backgrounds of two countries?; Prior to the 1990s, the structure of central-local relations in postwar Japan and Korea remained vertically structured so that central ministries gave orders and commands to related bodies in local governments. Those highly centralized models delivered tangible signs of success such as fast growth of economy and improvement of quality of life in a very short period, yet those models have been under strain, since the economic recession of the 1990s. My original claim is that the cause of recent decentralization reform in Japan and Korea lies in the diffusion of neoliberal idea that intertwined with top political leadership, the placement of decentralists in governmental organizations, and the growth of civil and local society under the great uncertainty of globalizing economy.; Internationally developed and adopted idea affect institutional change by virtue of the fact that key policymakers embrace new reform agendas and issues, transport them into policymaking arenas, and carry them out in ways that change institutions. In doing so, neoliberal reform and decentralization become an attractive strategy to cure many policy problems. Although both countries did not faithfully follow the logic of neoliberal reform that proliferated in western democracies, the neoliberal idea and decentralization strategy provided a visible direction of policies for decision makers at the center, materialized specific path of strategies through reform institutions, and framed the discursive background of decentralization reform. I demonstrated how the diffusion of neoliberal idea throughout a country contributed to the construction of new central-local relationship in the formerly statist countries like Japan and Korea.; Throughout the analysis, I offer an ideational framework, which incorporate materialistic and ideological influence of globalization on decentralization politics, in order to identify the causal relationship between idea and domestic policy choice, decentralization. |
| Keyword | idea; decentralization; Korea; Japan; neoliberal reform; intergovernmental relations; northeast Asia; east Asian government |
| Geographic subject (country) | Japan; Korea |
| Geographic subject (continent) | Asia |
| Coverage date | circa 1995/2005 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m853 |
| Rights | Bae, Yooil |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Bae-20071011 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Bae-20071011.pdf |
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| Full text | STATE RESTRUCTURING AND PATHWAYS TO LOCAL DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICS OF DECENTRALIZATION IN JAPAN AND KOREA by Yooil Bae A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLITICAL SCIENCE) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Yooil Bae |
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