법·질서 확립 수준의 결정요인 분석 - 1984-2007년 기간 동안 99개 국가를 대상으로 -

초록

The importance of law and order cannot be overemphasized in a modern world. The infringement of law and order has been a perplexing problem to the modern governments, including an impediment to enhancing national competitiveness. Illegal violent protests have deteriorated the government's capability to respond quickly to economic challenges particularly in a post-cold war period. There have been many researches on restoring law and order, in this regard, mainly focusing upon the effectiveness of law enforcement. Few empirical studies have been done concentrating on the law and order embedded in political and social structure, which require rather sophisticated methodological elaboration. The aim of this study is, therefore, to find out the determinants of law and order particularly focusing upon the inherent and embedded elements of society. This study also attempts to generalize the results of the analysis by relying on both longitudinal and cross-sectional method. The scope of this study expands to 99 countries including both developed and developing countries, during the period of 1984 to 2007. The results of this study show that government stability and democratic accountability are statistically significant in the determinants of law and order, while economic growth and bureaucratic quality are statistically irrelevant to law and order. The typological analysis, furthermore, reveals that government stability has an impact on law and order stronger than democratic accountability does. Such findings of this study come to the conclusion that government stability would be the major determinants of law and order.

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