한국에서의 의료보험조합 통합일원화 논의의 정치: 정책 네트워크, 옹호연합, 그리고 보건의료 정책형성의 동태성 = The Political Dynamics of Policy Networks and Advocacy Coalitions in South Korea`s Healthcare Policymaking: The 20 Years of Debates to Inaugurate a Single-Payer System

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this article is to anatomize the political dynamics of South Korea`s healthcare policymaking through the integrative analytical framework combining the policy network perspective and the advocacy coalition theory. This framework is expected to be advantageous to the analysis of Korea`s turbulent healthcare policy change from a systematic and process-driven point of view. A target of analysis is the two decades of turbulence to transform the health insurance system into a single payer system. Through the analysis, this article tries to illuminate the dynamics of Korea`s healthcare policymaking, by connecting environmental context, policy networks, advocacy coalitions, and policy outputs. For a case study, this article classifies the debates to inaugurate a single payer system into four sub-phases and conducts longitudinal comparative research.