공공철학으로서의 행정학: 한국 행정개혁의 사상적 빈곤과 편향에 대한 비판적 검토와 교훈 = Public administration as public philosophy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study argues that public administration in South Korea should be founded on public philosophy in order to secure its particular identity, and that it has nevertheless not been properly putting public philosophy on the table of scholarly argument due to prevalent positivistic orientations. As a result, today’s public administration may not be effectively responding to value-laden questions such as which value or norm should be considered the best for establishing a stable and relevant directionality around which policy decisions and management practices are systematically built. This is represented well in the situation where the tenets and practice of neoliberalism, in the form of New Public Management, have long been enjoying dominant status. Public philosophy is a system of thought that deals directly with such questions in terms of which value or norm more appropriately corresponds to publicness. To promote the idea that long-forgotten public philosophy should be repositioned back into the core of public administration scholarship, and to promote the idea that alternative philosophies need also to be taken into serious consideration to maintain balance, this study examined a comprehensive set of theorists whose ideas dealt with the subject of publicness and legitimacy of governmental power. The theorists include, but are not limited to, Luhmann, Taylor, Waltzer, Berlin, Polanyi, Sen, Hayek, Habermas, Bourdieu, and Dworkin. Their arguments were reviewed and systematized into a comprehensive framework (Table 4). This was applied as a theoretical framework to investigate the historical experience of Korean public administration reform movements with regard to which value or norm has been counted as most important in the reform movement and how it has been changed over time.