관료적 자율성의 영향요인에 관한 연구: 45개 중앙행정기관을 중심으로

초록

Although bureaucratic autonomy has been one of the hottest topics through the history of Public Administration, few study involved in an empirical research mainly because of the difficulty in measuring a highly abstract concept of bureaucratic autonomy. The purpose of this study is to explore the determinants of bureaucratic autonomy, utilizing a two-step quantitative analysis. In specific, this study adopts legislative autonomy as a construct of bureaucratic autonomy. Using data from the 45 central government agencies in Korea, the analysis shows that 1) organizational resources such as financial resources, institutional resources, and individual characteristics of Minister are positively associated with bureaucratic autonomy, 2) both functional and institutional differences in the 45 central government agencies also positively associated with bureaucratic autonomy.

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