Public Administration and Policy in Korea

Public Administration and Policy in Korea

Author: Keun Namkoong

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1351847600

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The present Korean public administration and policy system has shown very significant differences compared to the system in 1970s. This book provides a comprehensive and holistic view on the development of Korean public policy and administration. The book aims to explain who the key actors are during the post-democratization period, how the administrative systems reform, and what kinds of social problems are transformed into public policies.


Confronting the Myth of Soft Power in U.S. Foreign Policy

Confronting the Myth of Soft Power in U.S. Foreign Policy

Author: Brent A. Lawniczak

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 166690953X

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The concept of soft power has caught the attention of policymakers, scholars, and political pundits for the last thirty years. Soft power studies most often focus on measures of public opinion toward a power-wielder and draw conclusions about a state’s level of soft power from that opinion. This research examines soft power influence by focusing on the elite discourse and the foreign policy decisions of states that are the target of soft power influence. Beginning with Joseph Nye’s conception that soft power is an attractive force that influences state policy decisions and its level of support for another state’s policies, Confronting the Myth of Soft Power in U.S. Foreign Policy examines whether U.S. soft power was part of key policymakers’ decision calculus. Soft power is tested against two plausible alternate explanations—balancing and state identity. Data from the discourse of key foreign policymakers in France and Germany indicate that U.S. soft power does not account for those states’ policy decisions to support U.S.-led policy interventions in Kosovo in 1999, or against ISIS in 2014. The results of this research are suggestive regarding the potential of soft power influence and its implications on scholarship and U.S. foreign policymaking.


International Democracy Assistance for Peacebuilding

International Democracy Assistance for Peacebuilding

Author: Sorpong Peou

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-10-23

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0230590802

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This book explains why international donors may succeed in putting war-torn countries on the path of democratic transition and negative peace, but fail to consolidate the gains they make. Critical of neo-institutionalism, but sympathetic to historical and normative institutionalism, this book advances 'complex realist institutionalism' theory.


Beyond Free and Fair

Beyond Free and Fair

Author: Eric Bjornlund

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Published: 2004-11-02

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0801880483

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Freedom in the World 2003

Freedom in the World 2003

Author: Freedom House (U.S.)

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 9780742528703

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Freedom in the World contains both comparative ratings and written narratives and is now the standard reference work for measuring the progress and decline in political rights and civil liberties on a global basis.