This study analyzes the financial, political, and demand-based factors of local government that affect adopting economic policy. Not only that, this study amplifies academic boarder of local currency to public administration and policy, since it has b...
This study analyzes the financial, political, and demand-based factors of local government that affect adopting economic policy. Not only that, this study amplifies academic boarder of local currency to public administration and policy, since it has been mainly done from sociology field.
More specifically, this study reveals the factors that determines regional policy adoption by local governments. Among the three explanatory factors of the static model, the effect of local monetary policy introduction was analyzed. The three explanatory factors adopted for the analysis are the financial, political, and demand-based factors of the internal factor model, one of the models that explains policy introduction. The integrated model including these factors was empirically analyzed and the relative influence between each factor was proven in this study.
Most policy diffusion studies has analyzed policy acceptance effects based on regional diffusion models among static models. Also, the most of existing researches on the spread of multiple policies are conducted limited to some part of the region, not the whole country. In contrast, in this study, more than two-hundreds cities and small districts in South Korea have been analyzed, which are all in terms of basic level of self-government. Also this study utilizes Internal Diffusion Model, which has not been frequently dealt in this field of study because of the shortage of data.
As a result, the introduction of local currency is affected by all of the financial, political and demand factors. On the other hand, internal factors differently affected in accordance with the types of local currency. In the case of paper-type local currency, financial and demand-based factors both have had the effect, while card-type local currencies had only been affected by the demand-based factor. In addition, financial factors affected the most, in the regions where new currencies were introduced or abolished.
In addition, this thesis examines foreign and domestic cases of local currency before setting up a research model, and combines previous studies with recent local government press releases to distinguish local currency types from existing alternative currencies. By presenting the current status by type, this researcher has organized the classification of local currency for use in future local currency research.