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This study aims to clarify the functions of the French National Commission for Public Debate (Commission Nationale du Débat Public) to find out possible lessons for a near introduction of the same institution in Korea. It is highly possible that the French system is susceptible to cast some lessons for Korean public decision-making process. This study examined and reconstituted the itinerary of French National Commission for Public Debate and finally drew five major perspectives to be conceived to rationalize Korean public administration's deicision-making process and to invigorate public debates for preventing increasing public conflicts in a policy process.

It is true that Korea has never officially classified which public institution should deal with which emergency, via a national framework. This article aims at encouraging Korea to adopt newly proposed "the National Response Framework (NRF)" for the ultimate purpose of contributing to the goal of emergency management such as reducing human loss, economic damages, and psychological impacts. To do so, the article has carefully and systematically examined the related implications as well as the existing problems after sequently comparing three major subjects to include the U.S. NRF, Japan's Disaster Management Plan, and Korea's Basic Plan on National Safety Management. The article has proposed how to improve Korea's Basic Plan on National Safety Management as a key finding, while elaborating on the general improvement direction, governments and their policy, NGOs and their strategy, the establishment of coordination network, and the revision of related laws. In short, this paper has emphasized that Korea should make efforts to radically transform its Basic Plan on National Safety Management into advanced NRF.

This study assessed the factors affecting why the poor households social welfare services in a municipal area by analyzing some data from the 2010 Seoul Welfare Panel Survey Data. As a result, in Seoul, there was a marked contrast between the north Han River and south Han River areas in using the welfare services. In particular, it was found that there are more public assistances in social welfare services in the south Han River area than in the north. In addition, disability, age, education level, health status, income, employment status, marital status showed a statistical significance. The effect factors are as follow : first, the Seoul metropolitan government needs improvements in its policies for welfare services to narrow the gap between areas. Second, the social services for poor households should be more accessible. Finally, the policies for care and support for the elderly in the households should be improved.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse public conflict around Busan International Film Festival through institutional frame analysis. The findings are as follows. Firstly, Busan International Film Festival has been successfully performed for 20 years, and BIFF-related actors could reach an agreement in terms of internal-situational conditions based on the attributes of the collaborative team affecting the structure of the action arena. Secondly, the internal governance and intervention style of mayor of Busan city aggravated conflicts and antagonism among the film-relators, so they boycotted 21st Busan International Film Festival. Thirdly, the frame conflict between Busan city and film-relators made disagreements and conflicts more deepened. Lastly, they succeeded in building the consensus through compromise and negotiation with authentic discourse, some mediation and litigation. So we realized that the revision of the dependent and untransparent game rules about Busan International Film Festival, and the introduction of the independent steering committee of Busan International Film Festival made possible consensus-building. Above all, conflict-related actors could have reached the consensus because they all deeply shared the interest and performance of BIFF. We suggest that compromise and negotiation based on authentic discourse be needed in public conflict resolution, comparing arbitration and litigation asking for long time and much transaction cost.

The regulatory body must be structured in such a way as to ensure that it is capable of discharging its responsibilities and carrying out its functions independently, effectively and efficiently. One of the most important attributes of a regulatory body is its independence from interference in its regulatory functions. This idea has been developed in a number of IAEA documents and in relevant international conventions. The requirements are reviewed in this paper relate to the organization of the regulatory body: its structure, allocation of resources, coordination with other governmental authorities, management system, staffing, and relationship with advisory bodies under the IAEA laws. This paper is also analyzed general requirements for performing the functions of the regulatory body to preserve the consistency and stability of operations and constructive liaison with authorized parties, comparing the IAEA laws and Korean laws of nuclear safety. As a result, key point was derived. That is the regulatory body shall perform its functions in a manner that does not compromise its effective independence. And legal policy of supplementation is proposed in this article.

This article studies the change of the function and role of government and various actors based on historical institutionalism and actor-centered institutionalism in the new institutionalism. In contrast to the historical institutionalism, the actor-centered institutionalism focuses the change of institutions by the actors like government, enterprises, and the civil organizations, in order to adjust to changing circumstances in the era of Globalization. This article focused on the two theories shows that in Germany the various actors including social enterprise endeavor adapt to the changing circumstances in society, while the government transfers it’s role from the steering to the regulation of the society. But the Korean government remains in the role of steering while the actors in the Korean society still depend on the government. Therefore the development of the Korean social enterprise delays, although the government and actors make an effort. In this article, the authors try to make a proposal that the government must transfer it’s role from the steering to the regulation in order to promote social enterprise.

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine correlation between the centralization of capital region and the regional disparity. Thus, this study analyzed correlation between the centralization of capital region and the regional disparity in terms of the status, changes, and canonical correlation analysis of the capital region centralization and the regional disparity. And, for this study, DB about 9 dimensions(population, economy, industry, money, urban infra, healthy and welfare, education, local public finance, and decision making) and 32 variables was built. In addition, analysis DB was divided into 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2007. The main results of the study are as follows. First, Korea's centralization of capital region is very high. In particular, centralization of capital region is very high in terms of population, economy, industry, money, and decision making. Also, the dimension with high centralization of capital region shows higher centralization with time. Second, Korea shows regional disparity in terms of population, economy, industry, money, local public finance, and decision making. Also, the high dimension of regional disparity shows higher regional disparity. Third, according to change in the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity, the dimensions with higher centralization of the capital region show higher regional disparity. In addition, local public finance and decision making newly show increase in the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity. Fourth, the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity has significant positive correlation. According to canonical correlation analysis, the higher centralization of the capital region is, the higher regional disparity probably becomes. However, correlation between the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity is lower during 1995-2007.

Actually most welfare organizations for the elderly in community have a similar organization structure, organizational strategy, and even, organizational behavior. Therefore, I am focusing on analysis of why the organizational strategies and structures in organizations have being become quite similar among organizations, as times go by in Korea. This approach will be evaluate an appropriate research compared with organization culture studies, because it do research not in the cross-sectional study but in the longitudinal study. In detail, I am going to analyze what social welfare administration Act is changed by times, and then I applied organizational development as a life cycle of how organizational growth was shown up. Therefore, I analyzed organizational strategies and structures in organizations and types of organizational isomorphism under the Social Welfare Administration Act like as institutional environment and summarized how these factors was influenced by an institutional environment through four steps according to organizational life cycle, for examples, ideas stage, startup stage, growth stage, and maturation stage. Finally I pointed out what type our organizational isomorphism bas been from 1970 to 2012.

In this study reviews the industrial society in the country emerged as an important policy challenge work-family balance policies that changes in the welfare states of Esping-Anderson types, classified as focusing on countries were investigated. As the late industrial society, the welfare state occurred in the process of implementing a new social risks in order to respond to local conditions and experience of social policy is the maintenance. Child care policy in particular, the welfare state and labor market participation and the status of women work-family balance policies are affecting many. In this study, first, work-family balance policies by reviewing existing literature and, second, after 2000 years, the child care and women's labor market participation of the welfare state work-family is compatible with any change in policy. As a result, child care and women in each country to participate in a labor market - a significant impact on family balance policies were found.

This paper attempts to analyze research trends in the field of apprenticeship education, using Network Text Analysis. In doing so, the existing literature on apprenticeship education was reviewed. The archive used in this analysis is KERIS Database. The analysis results are as follows. First, it shows that apprenticeship education method has already been used not only for on-the –job training but for constructivist teaching as well in Korea. Second, it also shows that the most important research area to be expanded further in the future is cognitive apprenticeship education method based on constructivist perspective, by which self-reflection and cognitive monitoring throughout education could be strengthened. Third, it points out that the concepts of the term ‘apprenticeship education’ have been defined with mingled purposes, sometimes differently from each other in meaning, making practitioners and researchers be confused in reality. Finally, it suggests that optimal apprenticeship education model be built and be introduced to school, so that it could be applied appropriately on the ground.